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
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From: "Jamil Ahmed"
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"
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
"Jamil Ahmed"
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?
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Mike FABIAN
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From: "Mike FABIAN"
"Jamil Ahmed"
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"
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?
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Mike FABIAN
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