Re: Country names for Bengali

[Jamil Ahmed <itsjamil@gmail.com>]

Christian Perrier wrote:

> Quoting Jamil Ahmed (itsjamil@gmail.com):
>  
>
> > After selecting the language: "Bengali - ?????" while using 
> > graphical D-I [1], the next screen shows a list of country names [2].
> >
> > May I know why "India" is listed above "Bangladesh" for Bengali language?
> >    
>
>
> Political conspiracy or.....alphabetical order? :-)
>  

Alphabetical order. :-D

> Sorting the country names in the short lists is done while building
> localechooser (actually, this is what makes building localechooser so
> long).
>
> It is done by the following code:
>
>      LOCPATH=`pwd` LC_ALL=debian/locales/$lastlocale.UTF-8 sort -k 2.1 $outfile > $outfile.tmp && mv $outfile.tmp $outfile
>
>
> In short, country names are sorted according to the given language's
> locale.
>
> So, what actually sorts India before Bengladesh is the bn_BD locale
> collation rules:
>
> > From /usr/share/i18n/locales/bn_BD
> title      "Bengali/Bangla language locale for Bangladesh"
> source     "Ankur Group, http://www.ankurbangla.org, http://www.bengalinux.org";
> address    "Dhaka, Bangladesh"
> contact    "Taneem Ahmed, Jamil Ahmed"
> .../...
> LC_COLLATE
> % TODO: Bengali sorting should be added
> copy "iso14651_t1"
> END LC_COLLATE
>
>
> Good luck for fixing this...if this needs fixing.
>  

Can you please point me - which line made the problem?

`Jamil