From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 55439@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55439: [PATCH] Add support for the Modi script
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 19:10:47 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d6hskrk.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835ym2dmi1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 19 May 2022 10:12:22 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> May be we can improve the format to cover language names in this file in
>> an economical way (but that could be a separate discussion).
>>
> I think this could be a slippery slope. Once we start showing
> language names there, we risk people starting to request us to name
> their favorite languages in the file, and we'd have to add more and
> more of them.
I retract my statement. True, that would be too much.
>> 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."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-19 13:40 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 [this message]
2022-05-19 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-19 14:31 ` Visuwesh
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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