From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Garreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs i18n Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:15:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3812766.yYtSGXXzW5@galex-713.eu> References: <87r1fscb0o.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32499"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 22 10:18:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m6TuE-0008Gu-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:18:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60288 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m6TuD-0000OZ-9Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m6TsG-0007SJ-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from portable.galex-713.eu ([2a00:5884:8305::1]:52176 helo=galex-713.eu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m6TsA-0007nh-VT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:16:07 -0400 Original-Received: from gal by galex-713.eu with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m6Try-000872-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2021 10:15:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:5884:8305::1; envelope-from=galex-713@galex-713.eu; helo=galex-713.eu X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132024 Archived-At: Le mercredi 21 juillet 2021, 15:01:54 CEST Jean Louis a =C3=A9crit : > * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-07-21 11:57]: > > Well, they have resources to do that, and hire themselves and > > each other to do the job for the right price. A lot is for > > political reasons, also. But, obviously I don't know how > > everything happens there, but of course the international > > language is English there as well as everywhere else. >=20 > What means international? Is it for all countries or just few > countries? several countries the main point of what he says is not =E2=80=9Cinternational=E2=80=9D but = =E2=80=9Cthe=E2=80=9D. maybe he=20 mostly tries to say =E2=80=9Cvehicular=E2=80=9D. > Maybe interpretation is too narrow. >=20 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speak > ers >=20 > Order the table by the number of first language speakers. >=20 > Look at the number one language spoken in the world, which is which? > Chinese. 1.12 billion speakers! It is definitely international > language by definition. =E2=80=9Cinternational=E2=80=9D does not mean =E2=80=9Cbig=E2=80=9D but =E2= =80=9Camong several nations=E2=80=9D or=20 =E2=80=9Coutside of only one nation=E2=80=9D. You may consider chinese int= ernational if=20 you consider mandarin, cantonese, etc. to be different nations. > Spanish is second language by first language speakers. It is > international. >=20 > Then comes English, Hindi, Portuguese.