Re: HELLO changes

[Juri Linkov]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:
> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> > Seems, ICU is the valid source of information.  I believe you used
> > the table on the
> > http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/dropbox/C-sharp-LocaleNames.html.
> > Right?
> 
> No, I used the locale database.  (I am happy to believe it's not the
> best reference, but it was the only one I could find easily with that
> information, and I assume it is quite authoritative.)

For languages that I can tell with certainty about, information on the
Web page is more correct than in the locale database.  Curiously enough
why they are different given that they are created under one project.

> > Then maybe it makes sense to create another HELLO file fully in
> > Unicode?
> 
> I'm sure it doesn't make sense to create another file, but what do you
> mean by `in Unicode' anyway?  Unicode is not the same sort of thing as
> an Emacs coding system, and we certainly don't want that file in
> utf-8, say.

I meant that separate file could contain the same text as the HELLO
file currently has, but written by characters from mule-unicode-*
character sets (I suppose that all characters in HELLO from
non-Unicode character sets have their correspondence in Unicode table)
and encoded by the same iso-2022 coding system (as they are encoded
currently in Unicode section you proposed to delete from HELLO file).
But seems this file will be useful only for developers and testers to
see why letters of the same alphabets written by characters from
different character sets (e.g. latin-iso8859-1 and mule-unicode-*) are
displayed by different fonts.  I expect that letters of the same
alphabets should be displayed by the same fonts.  Could you tell, is it
a bug, a misconfiguration, or is it not implemented yet?

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