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Re: Language environments
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Language environments |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:45:12 -0800 (PST) |
The glitches noted below hint that maintaining a detailed language
catalog may be too much for Emacs's group of volunteers right now. I
think you'd need at least one serious hacker who is using each
language; I can't see that happening for (say) Afar right now. I'm
not sure that a call for new language environments would be a good use
of our time at this point.
> From: Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:40:22 +0100
>
> For the Translation Project in po-mode.el coming with gettext we use
> these language codes (updated by Bruno Haible lately); maybe, this info
> can go into Emacs core[1].
That info seems to be absent from gettext 0.10.40; perhaps it was too
much of a pain to maintain?
While we're on the subject, gettext-0.10.40/doc/ISO_639 seems to be
derived from an older version of
<http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt>; e.g. it's
lacking "sh" for Serbo-Croation and "Sangho" is misspelled. Perhaps
gettext should be updated? Sorry, I don't know where the canonical
copy of that file is, but apparently it's not at dkuug.dk any more.
(Other resources in this space include
<http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html> and
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm>.)
- Re: Language environments, (continued)
- Re: Language environments, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/18
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/19
- Re: Language environments, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/19
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/20
- Re: Language environments, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/20
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/11/19
- Re: Language environments,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Language environments, Bruno Haible, 2001/11/20
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/22
- Re: Language environments, Bruno Haible, 2001/11/22
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/23
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/28
- Re: Language environments, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/29
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/29
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/30