Comments in this bug report are very badly informed. The iso-codes package purpose is not to provide language names in the said language (or in whatever transcription of it). The purpose of the package is to provide the list of languages codes and language names IN ENGLISH, exactly as they are in the ISO 639 standard.
The standard says "Bengali", so "Bengali" will remain in the package. Please notice that iso-codes provides translations of its strings. For instance, for iso_639, we have a bn_IN.po file where thetranslation of "Bengali" is: msgstr "বাংলা" No idea whether that says "Bangla" or anything else. I suspect it's likely to be it. The problem might come because the translation is named bn_IN.po and not bn.po. This is a very common misconception of translators that they should have different translations for different locales. Unfortunately, the consequence of this is that Bangladesh users will NOT get this translation. I suspect this might be the origin of the problem. To make it short: - in a list of language names in English, the language name will always be "Bengali"....at least until the ISO 639 standard is changed (good luck...) - in a list of language names in Bengali/Bangla, it should certainly be "Bangla" (written in Bengali script of course) - in a mixed list, like we have in Debian Installer (the original one, the one that seems too complicated to offer as a default for Ubuntu users), it should be "বাংলা - Bengali" (guess what? This is what we have in Debian Installer) This bug should be WONTFIX and will be marked as such in Debian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991002 Title: Change name for bn-BD from 'Bengali(Bangladesh)' to 'Bangla(Bangladesh)') Status in “iso-codes” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “iso-codes” package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: The official name for the state language for Bangladesh is Bangla, as detailed on section 3, part 1 of the Bangladesh constitution (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/bangladesh-constitution.pdf). However, language selector continues to refer to this language as Bengali (Bangladeh). While Bengali has been historically used as the english name for the language during colonial periods, the name 'Bangla' is more widely used nowadays. It is also the name with which native speakers identify the language. This package uses Bengali(Bangladesh) as the identifier for language code bn-BD. Please change the name to Bangla(Bangladesh). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 29 16:14:25 2012 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=bn_BD:bn:en_IN:en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=bn_BD.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: language-selector UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-19 (41 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes/+bug/991002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
