[Debian-in-workers] Country names for Bengali

[Jamil Ahmed]

On 3/29/06, Denis Barbier <barbier at linuxfr.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:10:50PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:49:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > > > Christian already informed that the bn_BD locale has an issue, I will
> > > > try to dig out.
> > >
> > > You can ask for help on debian-i18n, at least to be pointed at correct
> > > documentation about collation rules writing.
> > >
> > > Denis barbier gave a very interesting talk at last Debconf about this
> > > (which talk, dammit, I couldn't attend because I had a D-I talk
> > > immediately after it).
> >
> > Slides are available at
> >    http://people.debian.org/~barbier/talks/debconf5/glibc-locale.pdf
> >
> > I wrote a first draft of collation rules, based on informations found in
> >    http://tdil.mit.gov.in/bangla.pdf
> >    http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/common/collation/bn.xml
> >    http://developer.mimer.com/collations/charts/bengali.htm
> > Could a native speaker please send a sorted list of words, say around 50,
> > one word per line?  I can then check that the file is not modified when
> > passed to the sort command.
>
> Can a native Bengali speaker please provide this file, so that I can
> test collation rules?

Please check the file,
http://www.bengalinux.org/downloads/BN_country_list_sorted.txt.bz2

FYI, the file is created manually. So there might be some glitches. :)

Best,
`Jamil