From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 7418@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:43:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19686.46930.439488.993502@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aal5p8x8.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
>> ,----
>> | Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική) Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
>> | Latin (latina) Salve
>> `----
> Latin is not very useful,
So are English, Italian, Dutch/Nederlands and Norwegian. But I agree,
I had added Latin just for completeness.
> but adding ancient Greek is a good idea.
> Where did you get the text from?
It's as classic as Greek can get. :-) For example, the greeting
appears in Homer's Odyssey (book 24, line 403):
<http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%B4%CF%8D%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1/%CF%89#340?match=en>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-19 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-17 10:11 bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO Ulrich Mueller
2010-11-19 16:36 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-19 17:43 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2010-11-21 19:04 ` Chong Yidong
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