[Indic-computing-users] Different bangla versions

[Kaushik G. <kg...@wa...>]

Hi,
From one point of view I guess we'd want to customize as much as possible
- so we'd have bn_bd and bn_in, but I don't know how much more effort this
will all entail. 

We could start out by making bn_bd and bn_in mirrors of some first release
bn, and then have a dictionary of equivalents (i.e I assuming the grammar
is identical, just some words are different like jal and pani) and then
we'd pass the files through this filter and it would replace all bn_bd
words in a bn_in file with the corresponding bn_in words and vice versa...

We ARE going to have a unicode dict right, for the spellings esp... 

-kaushik


On 23 Sep 2002, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 23:01, Ahmed, Taneem wrote:
> > Hi Sayamindu,
> > 
> > Sorry to email again, but something just hit me. As I mentioned in my last
> > email that we may want to send out the list of words to people, I was trying
> > to figure out who would be our target audience. Then I realized that the
> > response will be quite different between Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi
> > Bengali people. Do you think it would make more sense to do the translation
> > under bn_IN and bn_BD like en_GB and en_US? 
> > 
> 
> hmmm.... important observation - cc-ing to all
> but, going by that argument, we would have to do not only bn_IN and
> bn_BD, but also, bn_CHT (chattagram - my ancestors are from that
> region), bn_MD (midnapore), bn_NB (north bengal) and what not.
> I believe that Dhaka University still recognises the Bengali grammar and
> dialect proposed by Calcutta University (though this is highly unfair -
> sort of cultural and linguistic dadagiri) 
> So, let us go together now - once a bit matured, we can branch out to
> handle the dialectical differences
> 
> -iti-
> sdg
> 
> 
> 
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