From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows-1251 language environment Date: 15 Oct 2003 23:27:43 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310070254.LAA11795@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066257227 1502 80.91.224.253 (15 Oct 2003 22:33:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:33:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 00:33:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9uDA-00056u-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9uDA-0002qH-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:33:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9uC1-00070X-KW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9u8E-0006Gc-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A9u7h-00065A-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.56.14] (helo=server0027.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1A9u7g-00064J-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com ([195.137.103.251]) by server0027.freedom2surf.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Debian-7) with ESMTP id h9FMRrEK008033; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 22:27:54 GMT Original-Received: from NYAUMO (nyaumo.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.27]) by wanchan.jasonr.f2s.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73850DDD70; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:26:33 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Dave Love In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17129 Dave Love writes: > See `locale-language-names' and comments in it. The major problem is > interpreting the codeset part in terms of a coding system since the > names are quite variable. > > I don't know how the equivalent is supposed to work in MS Windows & > al. MS Windows uses three letter codes for languages instead of the two letter ISO codes that POSIX uses. In most cases the first two letters are the same, so most of the regexps in locale-language-names work. Japanese and Chinese are exceptions, which are listed in the non-standard section at the bottom of locale-language-names.