[Bug 991002] Re: Use the modern English name Bangla instead of Bengali for the language code bn

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

** Summary changed:

- Change name for bn-BD from 'Bengali(Bangladesh)' to 'Bangla(Bangladesh)')
+ Use the modern English name Bangla instead of Bengali for the language code bn

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Title:
  Use the modern English name Bangla instead of Bengali for the language
  code bn

Status in The GNU C Library:
  Confirmed
Status in GNOME Control Center:
  New
Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “iso-codes” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “iso-codes” package in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Debian:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The official name for the state language for Bangladesh is Bangla, as
  detailed on section 3, part 1 of the Bangladesh constitution
  (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/bangladesh-constitution.pdf).
  However, language selector continues to refer to this language as
  Bengali (Bangladeh). While Bengali has been historically used as the
  english name for the language during colonial periods, the name
  'Bangla' is more widely used nowadays. It is also the name with which
  native speakers identify the language.

  This package uses Bengali(Bangladesh) as the identifier for language
  code bn-BD. Please change the name to Bangla(Bangladesh).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 29 16:14:25 2012
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=bn_BD:bn:en_IN:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=bn_BD.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-19 (41 days ago)

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