From: Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Subject: Re: windows-1251 language environment
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 16:33:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ekx0dne0.fsf@emacswiki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqn0bpz4az.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> (Dave Love's message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:10:28 +0100")
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> The trouble with `language' environments is that they have little to
> do with the language per se. If you're not going by system defaults
> (locales), I think you want to provide orthogonal customization of
> language, codeset, and other features. If you lump them all together,
> you'll have probably four for each Western European language: latin-1,
> latin-9, windows-1252 and utf-8. Then multiply by two or three for
> the possible input methods. Then the calendar is different in
> territories with the same language...
I agree with Dave Love. Take Switzerland as an example, and let us
only talk about German and French, excluding Italian and
Rhaeto-Romance. We speak German, but we use a different ispell
dictionary because instead of a sharp s we use double-s, and we use
our own keyboard layout. We use any of the four coding systems Dave
lists. We use a different date format (last time I checked). The
French speaking Swiss use the French ispell dictionary, but they, too,
have a different keyboard layout.
The language per se is not enough information.
Alex.
--
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2003-09-30 17:11 ` windows-1251 language environment Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net>
[not found] ` <rzq1xtrsdrm.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net>
2003-10-07 2:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-07 11:56 ` Anton Zinoviev
2003-10-12 15:45 ` Dave Love
2003-10-17 12:49 ` Anton Zinoviev
2003-10-17 13:22 ` Terje Rosten
2003-10-17 14:36 ` Anton Zinoviev
2003-10-17 16:58 ` Terje Rosten
2003-10-21 22:38 ` Dave Love
2003-10-23 9:23 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-24 17:07 ` Anton Zinoviev
2003-10-08 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-08 10:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-09 14:44 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-12 15:40 ` Dave Love
2003-10-13 23:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-14 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-15 13:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-15 14:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-16 9:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-16 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-17 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-10-21 22:48 ` Dave Love
2003-10-20 19:47 ` Dave Love
2003-10-16 14:06 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 8:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-10 17:11 ` Dave Love
2003-10-10 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-12 17:21 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-14 22:24 ` Dave Love
2003-10-15 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-20 19:50 ` Dave Love
2003-10-22 9:24 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-25 16:10 ` Dave Love
2003-10-26 15:33 ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2003-10-28 8:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-27 7:02 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-28 12:35 ` Dave Love
2003-10-29 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-15 22:27 ` Jason Rumney
2003-10-16 16:16 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-16 16:38 ` Jason Rumney
2003-10-14 0:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-14 19:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-10-14 22:33 ` Dave Love
2003-10-13 12:46 ` Dave Love
2003-10-14 0:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-10-15 14:38 ` Dave Love
2003-09-29 16:47 Paul Pogonyshev
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