From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <877fqnzpno.fsf@gnu.org> <5590493C.8000007@yandex.ru> <87381bzife.fsf@gnu.org> <75f2fe0f-f15e-4af8-b9ae-0ddc9231c9ab@default> <83a8vi60ke.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbe64jyt.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435614800 25008 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 21:53:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:53:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 23:53:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gzF-0003LK-QI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:53:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gzF-00070g-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34446) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gyx-0006eC-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gyw-00006u-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gys-0008Vd-G1; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gyr-0004Kz-0y; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:52:45 -0400 In-reply-to: <83vbe64jyt.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:23:22 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187652 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Why are we concerned with Bidi for quotes in doc strings? Doc strings should be written in English. Of course, you CAN put in them whatever language you like; we don't try to stop you. But if you write them in some other language, you're going against our conventions -- so there is no reason why other conventions need to cater to that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.