From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The ASCII language and some other things Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:15:50 +0200 Message-ID: References: <437A7A10.3040704@student.lu.se> <437AE079.5060101@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132138704 797 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 10:58:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 11:58:13 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcKyK-0008P3-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:57:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcKo8-0002e4-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcJOa-0003Ii-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcJOX-0003Hr-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:15:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcJOV-0003HN-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EcJOV-0003iG-Dn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 04:15:55 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-53-80.inter.net.il [80.230.53.80]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BYP06038 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:15:49 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <437AE079.5060101@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:32:09 +0100) 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:46087 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:32:09 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >"ASCII" is an alias for "English". > > > Thanks, I guessed it was in English, but is "ASCII" the same as > "English" here? Yes, I think so; see lisp/language/english.el. > >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? You mean, you don't understand the reason for having the "ASCII" alias? I could think of a couple of reasons, but I don't actually know the history of this. Perhaps someone else does.