[Debian-in-workers] Re: Bengali near 100% in Debian Installer

[Khandakar Mujahidul Islam]

Hi,
I think you missed two translators name.
1. Quazi Ashfaq-ur Rahman <quazi.ashfaq at gmail.com>
2. Khandakar Mujahidul Islam <suzan at bengalinux.org>

Khoda hafez,
Suzan

On 10/19/05, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
>
> I am proud to announce that, thanks to the translators of the
> Bengalinux project [http://bengalinux.org] comprising volunteers from
> both India & Bangladesh like Baishampayan Ghose, Jamil Ahmed & Progga,
> the Bengali language support is now nearly complete in Debian Installer
> core packages (so-called "level 1" translations).
>
> Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the *world*,
> with about 170M to 190M native speakers. It is the state language in
> some states from Eastern India and, of course, the national langauge
> of Bangladesh.
>
> This progress is one of the most visible consequences of the recent
> efforts by the debian-in development group to improve the support for
> languages of South Asia in Debian (and, indirectly, in Debian derived
> distributions).
>
> Combined with the huge effort aimed at building a "graphical" version
> of the Debian Installer, able to support languages with complex
> rendering algotithms such as South and South-East Asia languages, this
> will certainly give a big push to the development of Debian in this
> part of the world.
>
> Translations already exist for Hindi (180M speakers), Bengali (180M),
> Punjabi (30M) and effort will soon start for Gujarati (46M), Kannada
> (35M), Malayalam (35M), Sanskrit, Tamil (66M).
>
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