RE: [Maybe OT] localized names of the Unicode Control characters

Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> This may be OT here, but still.....
> We are working on GNOME (www.gnome.org) localization into 
> Bengali, and I was wondering, if there are localized names of 
> the Unicode Control characters (like ZWNJ and ZWJ) for non 
> English speaking people. If so, are samples available anywhere??
> Bengali equivalent of ZWNJ, ZWJ, etc sound terrible :-( (of 
> course, the English versions can also sound terrible to "non 
> techie" people).

ISO 10646 has the French translation of all the character names. In most
cases, the French names are just literal translations of the English ones
but, in a few cases, they have a completely different wording, which can
provide a better starting point for translations in other languages.

As you say, those names are often meaningless labels intended for techie
people. In a user interface, you should probably invent more friendly terms
(e.g. "joiner", "splitter"), leaving the literal translation (or even just
the untranslated English term) only in the manual or help file.

_ Marco


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