SUSE :: l10n in Bangla/Bengali
Hello, We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in GNU/Linux. Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE. You can see the status from the url's below. Fedora Linux http://elvis.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status?page=status&locale=bn Mandrake Linux http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/bn.php3 Gnome 2.6.x http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.6/bn/index.html KDE http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/HEAD/bn/index.php We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too! Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue. Waiting for your valued reply. :-) Thanks, `Jamil
Hello, There is no option to work for localization in Bangla/Bengali? No one responded!! :-| `Jamil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> To: <m17n@suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: [m17n] SUSE :: l10n in Bangla/Bengali
Hello, We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in GNU/Linux. Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE.
You can see the status from the url's below.
Fedora Linux http://elvis.redhat.com/cgi-bin/i18n-status?page=status&locale=bn
Mandrake Linux http://www.mandrakelinux.com/l10n/bn.php3
Gnome 2.6.x http://l10n-status.gnome.org/gnome-2.6/bn/index.html
KDE http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/HEAD/bn/index.php
We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too! Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue.
Waiting for your valued reply. :-)
Thanks, `Jamil
"Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> さんは書きました:
We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in GNU/Linux. Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE.
You can see the status from the url's below.
Looks like you did a lot of great translation work already.
We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too! Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue.
Please contact Antje Faber <afaber@suse.de> and Karl Eichwalder <ke@suse.de> (added to the CC:). They will subscribe you the translation related mailing list <yast-int@suse.de>. There you will get all information about which files need to be translated and the general procedures. If you want to have something to start with right now, you can start translating YaST2 for example. The YaST2 .po files can be downloaded here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/noarch/i18n/yast There is no y2-bn.tar.gz file yet, but you can start by copying the y2-en_US.tar.gz file for the moment: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/noarch/i18n/yast/y2-en_US.tar.gz Please send translated files to Antje and Karl. If you contact Antje and Karl and tell them that you want to do Bangla translations, they will create a y2-bn.tar.gz and put it at that location. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
"Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> さんは書きました:
We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in GNU/Linux. Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE.
[...]
We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too! Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue.
Thank you very much for the offer. When we have Bangla translations, we need free fonts for Bangla as well. A quick check on my machine gives: mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list :lang=bn Code2000:style=Regular FreeSans:style=Medium FreeSerif:style=Medium mfabian@magellan:~$ i.e. this doesn't look good. I have installed Code2000 only for testing, it is not part of the SuSE Linux distribution. FreeSans and FreeSerif are part of SuSE Linux, but do they really support Bangla well enough? It has only GSUB tables for the following scripts: mfabian@magellan:~$ ottest /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/FreeSans.ttf |grep ScriptTag <ScriptTag>DFLT</ScriptTag> <ScriptTag>armn</ScriptTag> <ScriptTag>hebr</ScriptTag> <ScriptTag>latn</ScriptTag> <ScriptTag>DFLT</ScriptTag> <ScriptTag>latn</ScriptTag> mfabian@magellan:~$ and none for "beng", therefore I doubt that it works well for Bengali. Are there good, free fonts for Bangla/Bengali which we could distribute with SuSE Linux? Can you recommend any? -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike FABIAN" <mfabian@suse.de> To: "Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> Cc: <m17n@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Bangla/Bengali fonts (was: SUSE :: l10n in Bangla/Bengali)
"Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> さんは書きました:
We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in
GNU/Linux.
Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE.
[...]
We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too! Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue.
Thank you very much for the offer.
Welcome! :-)
When we have Bangla translations, we need free fonts for Bangla as well.
[...]
Are there good, free fonts for Bangla/Bengali which we could distribute with SuSE Linux? Can you recommend any?
Actually We [www.ankurbangla.org] have a sub-project named "The Free Bangla Fonts Project" http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/ Fonts can be downloaded from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/ Currently Red Hat's Fedora Linux has included "MuktiNarrow" font only. And Mandrakelinux has included all of them. :-) You can see some screenshots from Fedora Core 2 in Bangla/Bengali http://www.ankurbangla.org/screenshots/fedora/ Thanks, `Jamil
"Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@bengalinux.org> さんは書きました:
Actually We [www.ankurbangla.org] have a sub-project named "The Free Bangla Fonts Project" http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
Fonts can be downloaded from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/
Thank you for the information. The page http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/ says This set has four fonts, MuktiRegular.ttf, MuktiBold.ttf, MuktiNarrow.ttf, and MuktiNarrowBold.ttf. But the tar ball http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/MuktiNarrow-0.94.tar.bz2 seems to contain only two: MuktiNarrowBold.ttf MuktiNarrow.ttf Where are the other two? -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。
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