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bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia |
Date: |
Wed, 18 May 2022 18:57:28 +0300 |
> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 21:08:09 +0530
> Cc: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>, 55493@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> The changes to HELLO do more that the above says. I don't think I
> understand the reason for the change in the "South Asia" line.
>
> The South Asia line was correcting the Odia greeting, which I had changed
> previously (from "Listen" to
> "Namaskaar")
Please reflect that in the log message.
> This is unrelated, and I see no reason to rename the variable in a
> backward-incompatible way. It's just a variable, so it doesn't have
> to be named rigorously correct. If we were discussing new code, the
> correction would have had its place, but not now, 16 years after it
> was introduced.
>
> This variable name is somewhat misleading. When I searched "iso 638", online
> to see whether the language
> codes were updated or not,
> it showed me results for oven boards, later when searching "iso 638
> languages" I realized that the correct
> standard number is 639.
> There was also a FIXME above it, so I fixed that.
> If there is a backward-compatible way to change it please tell me, or if you
> still feel the change is not
> warranted, I will revert this it.
A backward-compatible change would need to introduce an obsolete alias
with the old name.
> I don't think we should rename variables and functions. It's just a
> lot of hassle for us (defalias etc.) and potentially for others, and
> the gain is very small. This variable doesn't even say "oriya", just
> "ori". Let's not be too radical here.
>
> Then I should only rename in etc/HELLO, and in (set-language-info-alist) of
> lisp/language/indian.el.
Yes, I think so.
> We cannot rename an input method we had for almost 20 years. If there
> is some way of having an alias for an input method (I don't think so,
> but maybe I'm missing something), let's use that; otherwise we will
> have either to leave the old name alone or define a new input method
> that is an exact copy of the old one, except for the name and the
> mode-line indicator.
>
> How about I make a new Odia input system, just like the ones which I had made
> for the other scripts, and
> leave the old ones alone?
By "input system", do you mean a separate language-environment with a
separate input method? That would be OK, I think.
Thanks.
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/17
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, Visuwesh, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/18
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/19
- bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, समीर सिंह Sameer Singh, 2022/05/19
bug#55493: [PATCH] Rename Oriya to Odia, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/18