From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 55439@debbugs.gnu.org, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
Subject: bug#55439: [PATCH] Add support for the Modi script
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 20:01:40 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d6hlhkj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o7ztd3pv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 19 May 2022 16:58:04 +0300")
[வியாழன் மே 19, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
>> Cc: 55439@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 19:10:47 +0530
>>
>> >> As I said, a language speaker might conclude it wrong even though
>> >> Emacs supports the language.
>> >
>> > I don't think I understand how could a language speaker arrive at some
>> > wrong conclusions, please elaborate. If the problem is caused by this
>> > blurb we have at the beginning:
>> >
>> > This is a list of ways to say hello in various languages.
>> > It is not intended to be comprehensive, but to demonstrate
>> > some of the character sets that Emacs supports.
>> >
>> > then we could amend that text.
>>
>> We can just add this or something like this at the end of the above
>> paragraph - "Search for the script name of your language to see if your
>> language is supported."
>
> Sorry, I don't think I understand. Could you explain how that text
> could mislead someone into incorrect conclusions? Armed with that
> explanation, I think I will be able to understand your suggestion.
I will use the case of Devanagari to explain the proposal: a number of
languages uses Devanagari as the script---Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri,
Konkani, etc. Pankaj says that one might not know that their language
uses the _script_ called Devanagari as people rarely speak about the
_script_ itself but more about their _language_. At least to me, it is
far less natural to speak about the script a language uses; we mostly
speak of the language itself and refer to the script as "the way we
write X language" (note how I don't use the word "script" at all here).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-19 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-15 23:33 bug#55439: [PATCH] Add support for the Modi script समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-16 7:00 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-17 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-16 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-16 23:25 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-17 9:49 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-17 9:57 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-17 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 13:42 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-17 13:48 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-17 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 12:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 14:10 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-17 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-17 14:14 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-17 22:59 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-18 0:14 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-18 3:08 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-18 3:41 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-18 7:12 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-18 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 3:14 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-19 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 13:40 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-19 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 14:31 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-05-19 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 16:32 ` Pankaj Jangid
2022-05-21 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 13:25 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-18 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 14:58 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-18 15:10 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-18 15:23 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-19 23:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-18 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-18 16:15 ` समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
2022-05-18 4:33 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-19 23:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-05-17 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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