From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etc/HELLO markup etc. Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 09:33:41 +0200 Message-ID: <83muoo6b3e.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546069272 27660 195.159.176.226 (29 Dec 2018 07:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 07:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Van L Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 29 08:41:08 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gd9F4-00074y-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 08:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gd9HB-0004CJ-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:43:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gd9Gw-0003v6-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gd98C-000243-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gd98C-00023y-IS; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4365 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gd98C-0007CZ-6Z; Sat, 29 Dec 2018 02:34:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Van L on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:32:26 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232031 Archived-At: > From: Van L > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:32:26 +1100 > > >> Although the etc/HELLO markup might be of interest to those who care about > >> annotating languages in the text, it's irrelevant to the ordinary purpose of > >> that file, which is to show textual translations of "Hello” > > > That's not the original purpose of that file. The purpose is to show scripts, > > not languages, and to show how we display different scripts in the same buffer. > > The descriptive text accompanying (view-hello-file) says the following, > which needs to swap scripts for languages where that is. > > : Display the HELLO file, which lists many languages and characters. I'm not sure. This discussion has been very technical, and presumably the participants are well aware of what a script is, in this context. By contrast, a random reader of the doc string doesn't necessarily know what a script is. Saying "many languages and characters" is vaguely similar, while using only terminology most people understand.