Re: Bengali Bangladesh (bn-BD) Translation of SquirrelMail

>> >> > Can someone please help to integrate Bengali Bangladesh translation?
>> >> > It
>> >> > can
>> >> > be found in the url below:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.ankur.org.bd/downloads/l10n/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_bn_BD_13jan08.tar.bz2
>> >>
>> >> Thanks so very much for your contribution!  Some questions/notes
>> >> follow:
>> >>
>> >> The comment lines at the top of your squirrelmail.po file should look
>> >> more like the Swedish one (for example).  Please have a look at it in
>> >> sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po and at least put the right language
>> >> in.
>> >
>> > Thanks for informing the issue. Now the language code is added. Please
>> > check:
>>
>> Thank you.  Note that the word "LANGUAGE" at the very top of the file
>> should be replaced with the actual language name.
>>
>> Also, please update the copyright to 2009.
>
> Now both "LANGUAGE" and copyright information is updated.
>
> http://www.ankur.org.bd/downloads/l10n/squirrelmail/squirrelmail_bn_BD_09mar09.tar.bz2

Looks really good.  One thing left -- the string "sec_remove_eng.png"
in squirrelmail.po should be translated to "sec_remove_bn_BD".  Can
you please make this change?

>> And who should be listed as the official language maintainers?  I
>> don't see your name in the translation itself...?  I'd need names and
>> email addresses of the maintainers.
>
> Maintainer: Bengali (bn-BD)
> Name: Jamil Ahmed
> Email address: [email protected]

OK.

>> Finally, in your testing, what did you add to functions/i18n.php?
>> Here is an example for Latvian.  Please show what you used.
>>
>> $languages['lv_LV']['NAME']    = 'Latvian';
>> $languages['lv_LV']['ALTNAME'] = 'Latvių';
>> $languages['lv_LV']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
>> $languages['lv_LV']['LOCALE'] = 'lv_LV.UTF-8';
>> $languages['lv']['ALIAS'] = 'lv_LV';
>>
>> Note that LOCALE can contain multiple preferences in case the first
>> isn't found, such as:
>>
>> $languages['sv_SE']['LOCALE']  = array('sv_SE.UTF-8','sv_SE');
>
> You can use the content of following file for "bn_BD":
>
> http://www.ankur.org.bd/downloads/l10n/squirrelmail/lang_info.txt

That ALTNAME won't work.  Any 8-bit symbols must be HTML-encoded.

As for whether or not "bn" should be aliased to "bn_IN" or "bn_ID",
I'm not certain.  Do more people use Bengali in Bangladesh or India?
India's population being what it is and that it's the second most
spoken language there, I'd guess the latter.  However, it's the first
official language of Bangladesh and your translation is much much more
thorough.  Do you have reasons for your opinion on this matter?

> Btw, in bn_IN's setup.php there is an alias for both "bn" and "bn_BD" which
> needs to be removed.
>
> $languages['bn_BD']['ALIAS'] = 'bn_IN';
> $languages['bn']['ALIAS'] = 'bn_IN';

Yes, I'll remove the alias for "bn_BD", but per above, I'm not yet
sure who should get "bn".

>> >> Regarding the language code, I want to confirm that Bengali in
>> >> Bangladesh is in fact different than in India?  We do already (as you
>> >> probably know) have a bn_IN translation.  We are moving away from
>> >> including region codes in the language name in SquirrelMail if there
>> >> is no reason to have it, so if you object to having the India region
>> >> in the Bengali translation name, we can remove it.
>> >
>> > Yes, there are differences on spellings, dialects and general terms
>> > usage.
>> > So we should keep the region codes.
>>
>> Looking at what the rest of the free software world does, it looks
>> like many projects (e.g., KDE, Fedora) have a "bn_IN" translation and
>> a "bn" translation, although I do see that Debian also has a "bn_BD"
>> translation.  I am not an expert on Bengali, but I just want to make
>> sure we are synchronized with what everyone else is doing.
>
> Yes, initially we {Ankur, a team consist of Bangladeshi and Indian
> volunteers for Bengali localization} started with "bn" translation for
> GNOME, KDE, Fedora etc projects. After the translation reached into a good
> level, it was forked into "bn" and "bn_IN". Later we did not changed the
> "bn" translations into "bn_BD".

Meaning you should have changed it from "bn" to "bn_BD"?

OK, it sounds like "bn_BD" is good for SquirrelMail.

We're just about finished!

Thanks again!

  - Paul

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