Re: [Indic-computing-users] RE: [Bengalinux-core] Gnome glossary translation started (fwd)

[Viveka N. K <vi...@la...>]

HAM:}On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 23:01, Ahmed, Taneem wrote:
HAM:}> Hi Sayamindu,
HAM:}> 
HAM:}> Sorry to email again, but something just hit me. As I mentioned in my last
HAM:}> email that we may want to send out the list of words to people, I was trying
HAM:}> to figure out who would be our target audience. Then I realized that the
HAM:}> response will be quite different between Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi
HAM:}> Bengali people. Do you think it would make more sense to do the translation
HAM:}> under bn_IN and bn_BD like en_GB and en_US? 

Yes of course, the bn_IN, bn_BD are depeding upon the languages we are going to 
use in Desktop.  But the thing is to look for the people, for translation.
If Bengali is one language, It is better to generalise the strings which are 
understandable by all.

As of now, tscii people are using 'ta' for tamil, we (indian linux, IITM) are 
using ta_IN for tamil, hi_IN for hindi etc. 
But, some applications such as pine, will accept the name specification as
it is standardized by the i18n.  KDE is supporting the name as we give. 

- Vivek
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