[Bug 1070581] [NEW] Name of the language spoken in Bangladesh

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Public bug reported:

When querying nl_langinfo() for the language name of bn_BD.UTF-8, it
outputs the string "BengaliBangla", which of course looks a little
weird. The source file localedata/locales/bn_BD states the language
"Bengali/Bangla" with a slash.

A better name would be just "Bangla", since that's the official name of
the language spoken in Bangladesh, and the native Bangla speakers seems
to prefer it; please see bug #991002. The iso-codes package will
hopefully provide translations of the name "Bangla" soon. AFAIK noone
provides translations of the string "Bengali/Bangla".

But at least the code should be corrected so nl_langinfo() returns the
string "Bengali/Bangla" including the slash.

** Affects: eglibc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  When querying nl_langinfo() for the language name of bn_BD.UTF-8, it
  outputs the string "BengaliBangla", which of course looks a little
  weird. The source file localedata/locales/bn_BD states the language
  "Bengali/Bangla" with a slash.
  
  A better name would be just "Bangla", since that's the official name of
  the language spoken in Bangladesh, and the native Bangla speakers seems
- to prefer it; please see bug #991002.
+ to prefer it; please see bug #991002. The iso-codes package will
+ hopefully provide translations of the name "Bangla" soon. AFAIK noone
+ provides translations of the string "Bengali/Bangla".
  
  But at least the code should be corrected so nl_langinfo() returns the
  string "Bengali/Bangla" including the slash.

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Title:
  Name of the language spoken in Bangladesh

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When querying nl_langinfo() for the language name of bn_BD.UTF-8, it
  outputs the string "BengaliBangla", which of course looks a little
  weird. The source file localedata/locales/bn_BD states the language
  "Bengali/Bangla" with a slash.

  A better name would be just "Bangla", since that's the official name
  of the language spoken in Bangladesh, and the native Bangla speakers
  seems to prefer it; please see bug #991002. The iso-codes package will
  hopefully provide translations of the name "Bangla" soon. AFAIK noone
  provides translations of the string "Bengali/Bangla".

  But at least the code should be corrected so nl_langinfo() returns the
  string "Bengali/Bangla" including the slash.

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