bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script

[समीर सिंह Sameer Singh]

I think this entry should not be together with the old Indic scripts,
it should be separate from them.  Especially if you intend to add more
scripts/languages used in the Philippines.

Tagalog and other philippine scripts also descend from Brahmi. They are also superseded by the Roman script, so I would consider them as old.

I wonder whether we should call the language-environment "Tagalog".
Why not "Filipino", which AFAIU is the official language name?
Perhaps also for the input method.

AFAICT from the internet, Tagalog and Filipino are two different languages, Filipino is Tagalog with foreign loanwords, for e.g. the Filipino word for a chair is "silya" (from Spanish)

while in Tagalog it is "salumpuwit".

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 7:53 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
>  <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 03:43:54 +0530
>
> Tagalog script  is added to Emacs this time.

Thanks.

> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index 4f6df48129..4ded787888 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ corresponding language environments are:
>  **** Siddham script and language environment
>  **** Syloti Nagri script and language environment
>  **** Modi script and language environment
> +**** Tagalog script and language environment

I think this entry should not be together with the old Indic scripts,
it should be separate from them.  Especially if you intend to add more
scripts/languages used in the Philippines.

> +(set-language-info-alist
> + "Tagalog" '((charset unicode)
> +             (coding-system utf-8)
> +             (coding-priority utf-8)
> +             (input-method . "tagalog")
> +             (sample-text . "Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔)     ᜃᜓᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ")
> +             (documentation . "\
> +Philippine Language Tagalog is supported in this language environment.")))

I wonder whether we should call the language-environment "Tagalog".
Why not "Filipino", which AFAIU is the official language name?
Perhaps also for the input method.