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Remove Bangla interface file / choice #19643

@CyrilleB79

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@CyrilleB79

Following @seanbudd's comment: #19496 (reply in thread)

Let's remove the Bangla interface and keep the other files.

Steps to reproduce

In NVDA language list, select Bangla (Bengali) and restart

Actual behavior

The whole interface is in English.

Expected behavior

Some people wanted to translate the interface to Bangla in the past, but for various reasons, they did not continue this work. No Bangla string has ever landed in NVDA interface translation (.po).

Thus, Bangla interface file should be removed so that Bangla do not appaer in the NVDA language list.

Character description file was pre-existing the effort to translate NVDA's interface to Bangla. So it should remain in NVDA, as other Indian language character description files which had been introduced in NVDA at the same period.

Regarding symbol translation, I'd say the file should be removed too:

  • It contains only 4-5 translated complex symbols; all other symbols (complex or not) are not translated
  • "decimal point" contains no replacement value at all
  • most symbols being English in bn files, keeping the bn symbol file will prevent bn readers to benefit from English file evolutions (symbol name change, level change, etc.) since there is no bn maintener anymore.

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NVDA installed/portable/running from source

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NVDA version

2026.1beta3

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Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

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Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors

Same issue in all 2025.x versions at least.

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

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Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

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