bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

[Ulrich Mueller]

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Hi,

there's neither ancient Greek nor Latin in etc/HELLO yet.
Especially the former would be nice to have, since it would test
if the installed fonts can display characters from Unicode block
U1F00-U1FFF (Greek extended).

I therefore propose to add the following two lines:

,----
| Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική)	Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
| Latin (latina)	Salve
`----

Patch is attached.

Ulrich


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bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

[Chong Yidong]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

> there's neither ancient Greek nor Latin in etc/HELLO yet.
> Especially the former would be nice to have, since it would test
> if the installed fonts can display characters from Unicode block
> U1F00-U1FFF (Greek extended).
>
> I therefore propose to add the following two lines:
>
> ,----
> | Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική)	Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
> | Latin (latina)	Salve
> `----

Latin is not very useful, but adding ancient Greek is a good idea.
Where did you get the text from?

bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

[Ulrich Mueller]

>> ,----
>> | 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>

bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

[Chong Yidong]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

>>> ,----
>>> | 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):

Checked into emacs-23, thanks.