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[Bug localedata/14925] bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be "Bangla"


https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14925

Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |---

--- Comment #3 from Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu dot com> ---
Well, Mike, I'm pretty sure that the change won't make the reporters of
<https://launchpad.net/bugs/991002> happy. ;)

In response to that bug report, I made considerable efforts to have Ubuntu use
"Bangla" instead of "Bengali". In addition to Ubuntu specific changes, I can
mention that Debian's iso-codes package now includes the "common_name" Bangla:

$ cat /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_639.xml | grep -C 3 '"bn"'
        <iso_639_entry
                iso_639_2B_code="ben"
                iso_639_2T_code="ben"
                iso_639_1_code="bn"
                name="Bengali"
                common_name="Bangla" />
        <iso_639_entry

xkeyboard-config has also been changed:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/commit/?id=a224a636139d22e1dc7ca7d23782cd656e87bcf5

So keeping "Bengali" in glibc would be an undesirable inconsistency at this
time. Please note that "Bangla" is not the localized name of the language; it's
the new English name.

Changing the name of a language has hit several stumbling blocks; still hoping
that glibc won't be one of those. Please note that this is considered important
to those who have most involvement.

I reopened this bug report, and kindly ask you to consider an exception in this
case.

(I may try to file a ticket at Unicode CLDR, if I can figure out how.)

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