bug#43887: 28.0.50; in HELLO: Javanese (Jawa) System.out.println("Sugeng siang!");

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:05:39 -0400, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> said:

    Stefan> Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
    >> I therefore propose removal of the all-ASCII lines for: C (silly),
    >> Dutch, Emacs (not very useful for someone already looking at the
    >> buffer), Italian and Norwegian.
    >> 
    >> There are also way too many lines that only demonstrate the Latin-1
    >> subset, of which we should keep only one or two: Danish, Estonian,
    >> Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

    Stefan> You have a point, of course.  But how long before we get patches to add
    Stefan> these languages back, and then get to have another round of discussing
    Stefan> this?

    Stefan> I think it's better to just leave it all alone.  The list is long, but
    Stefan> not overly so.  If we want to avoid having to scroll for testing
    Stefan> purposes, we could instead extend the "Non-ASCII examples" section at
    Stefan> the top.

The list being long is a feature: when you've screwed something up
that causes a crash or a slowdown with the more esoteric scripts
towards the end of the file, having to scroll gives you the opportunity
to set your debugging up beforehand :-)

Robert
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