[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14285] Bengali locale needs to be re-defined

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14285

Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel from comment #1)
> (In reply to Indranil Das Gupta from comment #0)
> > Dear Bernardo,
> > 
> > Bengali [1] needs to split up from current 'ben' into bn-IN [2] and bn-BD [3]
> > 
> 
> Hi Indranil,
> no problem, just a couple of things:
> 
> 1) Agreed to change ben -> bn

Great! doing this will also automatically fix the non-display of
'native_description' in the lang switcher. Currently it shows "ben" instead of
"বাংলা" (i tested last night :)

> 2) Is Bengali different in India and Bangladesh?
> I mean script and/or words

The script used is same, but Unicode locales are different. The annual
calendars not same. The official (government mandated) spelling rules (in West
Bengal, India and in Bangladesh) are different. Also, Bangladesh being a Muslim
majority country, there are several differences beginning with forms of address
(Shri / Srimaan vs Janaab [for Mr] etc. Currency names are different.

The form of language (idioms / turns of phrase etc) used also differ quite
significantly, which has a direct impact on any translation project.

> So, if a split is needed, to which version (IN BD) current files belongs?

Speaking from experience as a BN localizer for projects like GNOME, KDE,
Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla - I would say at the time locale
split, seed both locales with the existing inputs, then let the locale specific
localizers modify that at their end. 

to be honest, the ben files are hardly maintained, but that is a situation i
intend to rectify by 3.22 release.

hope that helps.

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