From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The ASCII language and some other things Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:32:09 +0100 Message-ID: <437AE079.5060101@student.lu.se> References: <437A7A10.3040704@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132126558 29484 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 07:35:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 08:35:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcHoR-0000ly-P8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:34:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcHoQ-0004ss-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcHmG-0004sm-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:32:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcHmF-0004sa-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:32:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcHmE-0004sX-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EcHmC-0005dm-0i; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:32:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4378EBDA00089AE0; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:32:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46083 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:15:12 +0100 >>From: Lennart Borgman >> >>It disturbs me a bit to find the "ASCII" language when choosing "Help - >>Emacs Tutorial (choose language)...". >> >> > >"ASCII" is an alias for "English". > Thanks, I guessed it was in English, but is "ASCII" the same as "English" here? >We could filter it out when the >completion produces a list of known languages, but isn't it possible >that someone who is not a native English speaker will find that alias >useful? After all, we have that alias for a reason, right? > > Yes, but what I wanted to say is that I do not understand the reason. "English" is also in the list. Why is not that enough?