What about Bengali and Bangla debate? Is there any such debate?
Unicode specifies it as Bengali. Actually it should be Bangla, I
feel.
-Pavanaja
> Hi all,
> Offlate a debate has been going on in Gnome l10n circles as to how
> 'Punjabi' is to be written. Gnome has policy to follow ISO language
> codes, where language code is 'pa' ,written as 'Panjabi' for Punjabi.
> Other projects like KDE, SF.net, .. also follow same policy.
>
> List of language codes is at
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
>
> Right now Punjabi is not well supported, but when it does have
> support (locale, font, input methods) , this point will be constantly
> raised by users.
> It would be interesting to note that usage of 'Panjabi' is restricted
> to compliance of ISO 639 codes or by those who are not aware of the
> language name and come to know of it from ISO standards.
>
> Some threads from Gnome-i18n
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-February/msg00155.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2003-February/msg00156.html
>
> Its important that someone takes, this up with respective Punjabi
> language bodies, Govt of Punjab, TDIL/ MIT GOI to persue the matter
> with ISO to get the change done.
> I hope native speakers take this up (& I will keep making noises till
> someone takes it up :), since later on when language is better
> supported, it could grow into bigger debate.
>
> Regards,
> Karunakar
>
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