On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Christian already informed that the bn_BD locale has an issue, I will > > try to dig out. > > You can ask for help on debian-i18n, at least to be pointed at correct > documentation about collation rules writing. > > Denis barbier gave a very interesting talk at last Debconf about this > (which talk, dammit, I couldn't attend because I had a D-I talk > immediately after it).
Slides are available at http://people.debian.org/~barbier/talks/debconf5/glibc-locale.pdf I wrote a first draft of collation rules, based on informations found in http://tdil.mit.gov.in/bangla.pdf http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/common/collation/bn.xml http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/bengali.htm Could a native speaker please send a sorted list of words, say around 50, one word per line? I can then check that the file is not modified when passed to the sort command. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]