Ubuntu
localechooser package

Please include Bangla/Bengali during the installation/booting process

Bug #14845 reported by Jamil Ahmed
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localechooser (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Colin Watson

Bug Description

Currently Bangla/Bengali is not present in the list of languages in
Ubuntu/Kubuntu install or LiveCD.
Currently both Gnome and KDE has Bengali localization project.

Reference URL,
http://l10n-status.gnome.org/HEAD/bn/index.html
http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/HEAD/bn/index.php

Here is the information for the lang-table

Full language name...: Bangla/Bengali (Bangladesh)
Short name...........: bn
Default Locale.......: bn_BD.UTF-8
Default keyboard map.: en
Console font.........: default
Timezone.............: GMT+600 Asia/Dhaka

Full language name...: Bangla/Bengali (India)
Short name...........: bn
Default Locale.......: bn_IN.UTF-8
Default keyboard map.: en
Console font.........: default
Timezone.............: GMT+530 Asia/Calcutta

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Jamil Ahmed (jamil) wrote :

It will be great if you can fix this issue before 5.04 final release!
Btw, you have to include ttf-bangla-fonts package also.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

We already have language-pack-bn (for application translations) and
language-support-bn (which depends on packages that add support for Bengali).
The "locales" package supports this locale, too.

So what's still missing?

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Jamil Ahmed (jamil) wrote :

While booting Ubuntu/Kubuntu linux
"Choose a language" screen does not contain the language, "Bengali"
and
"Choose your location" screen does not contain the country, "Bangladesh"

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)
> While booting Ubuntu/Kubuntu linux
> "Choose a language" screen does not contain the language, "Bengali"
> and
> "Choose your location" screen does not contain the country, "Bangladesh"

Ah, ok, so this does not affect the installed system (where Bengali is
available), but the installer.

Colin, this seems to be your territory. However, I always thought that you use
/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, which does contain bn_BD and bn_IN?

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Jamil Ahmed (jamil) wrote :

Btw, we need keyboard layouts too. :-)

X.org contains 2 Bengali keyboard layout,
1. Bengali Probhat
2. Bengali Inscript

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

There's no Bengali translation of the installer, so the installer does not offer
it. When there's a Bengali installer translation, I'll add that language to
localechooser, but I don't think it's appropriate to do so before then.

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Jamil Ahmed (jamil) wrote :

Bengali characters do not render in console.

Then how can we boot with bn_BD or bn_IN locale in the LiveCD?

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Omi Azad (omi) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)
> We already have language-pack-bn (for application translations) and
> language-support-bn (which depends on packages that add support for Bengali).
> The "locales" package supports this locale, too.
>
> So what's still missing?

Have you ever tried installing those packs and log-in choosing BN or BN-IN as
your language? I hope not. Everything is missing.

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Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson) wrote :

Given "There's no Bengali translation of the installer, so the installer does not offer it", I think we can call this confirmed.

Changed in localechooser:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Bengali support was added in Dapper, though only in the desktop CD as the console isn't up to the necessary rendering.

Changed in localechooser:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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