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Re: Language environments
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Language environments |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Nov 2001 22:51:23 -0700 (MST) |
Maybe. Currently, by far the only difference between the various Latin-1
language environments is the default input method. Isn't this a waste?
I do not see the waste. What exactly is it that you think is a waste?
Personally, I was surprised that the menu-bar item for "Emacs Tutorial
(choose language)..." depended on the list of known language
environments (via read-language-name). Isn't it better to just look at
etc/TUTORIAL.* and work from there?
Maybe, but then one needs to have a table mapping these file names
to language names. Yes, it is standard that "fr" means French, but Emacs
still has to get the connection from somewhere.
There is a Lisp file which has a list of country codes; perhaps it has
the language codes too. We could use this file to map the file names
to the languages. But this file must be pretty large--is that really an
improvement?