[Debian-in-workers] Bengali in new Debian Installer

[Jamil Ahmed]

Christian Perrier wrote:

>>I'll be happy to join with you as a co-contributor. But is there any 
>>rule? I mean, should I have to announce it to any list at debian in a 
>>specific format? :)
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>>I checked out Debian-IN SVN's l10n repository and got 
>>"debian-installer_packages_po.pot" under /POT/debian-installer/level1/. 
>>So we have to work on it at the beginning. Have you done any work on 
>>this file? Let me know.
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BG: I started working on "/level1/debian-installer_packages_po.pot".

>As BG mentioned using debian-in SVN, I'll create the directory layout
>there for Bengali under "bn" just like the one currently in place for
>Hindi.
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Thanks! :)

>Other languages coordinators (Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Punjabi up to
>now), please tell me if you want the same for yours.
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>>Btw, After reading the following mail, I think you should request for a 
>>"bn" layout.
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>Yup.
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>I also have to setup some synchronisation between D-I repository and
>debian-in repository. Automating it would be nice, at least for the
>POT file and for level1.
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>About the graphical installer, things are moving on. The D-I team will
>probably have soon some usable demo. We are in the process of
>integratiung the graphical installer to D-I daily builds.
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>The next challenge will certainly be fonts. We will need font experts
>so that we have fonts that can display all supported
>languages. Volunteers welcome to join on
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot
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indic-font package is already there for Debian. Will not that do?
http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/ttf-indic-fonts

`Jamil