Comment 15 for bug 991002

@Christian
I won't repeat any clarifications with respect to your latest comment (#12) that shafin already made.

After having read both your and shafin's comments carefully, I still think that the arguments for making the proposed change are more convincing than the arguments against. The constitution of Bangladesh, UN ... and also the most commonly used OS. It's highly likely that sooner or later Bengali will be exchanged for Bangla in the ISO standards, so this is more like making a change some time before "upstream" (ISO) does - it's not a matter of introducing a permanent difference.

I understand that you are worried about possible consequenses of patching a language name - the "giant can of worms", as you put it. Please note that I don't advocate differences to the standard which are not very well founded; to me the Bangla/Bengali case seems to be an exceptional case. If we keep the bar high for even discussing exceptions, I'm quite sure that approving this proposal won't cause a flood of similar requests.

Nevertheless, unlike me you have a long experience of the iso-codes package, and I fear that you may think I'm naive. I have asked David Planella, Ubuntu's translations coordinator, to review the merge proposal including the comments in this bug report. I would suggest that we await his input before discussing this topic further.

On 2012-10-21 18:56, Christian Perrier wrote:
> By the way, I renamed bn_IN.po to bn.po.

Thanks! That's clearly a step in the right direction.

@shafin
Are you possibly aware of any attempts to call ISO's attention to the issue and make them change the name in the standard?