Re: The ASCII language and some other things

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:32:09 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> >"ASCII" is an alias for "English".  
> >
> Thanks, I guessed it was in English, but is "ASCII" the same as 
> "English" here?

Yes, I think so; see lisp/language/english.el.

> >We could filter it out when the
> >completion produces a list of known languages, but isn't it possible
> >that someone who is not a native English speaker will find that alias
> >useful?  After all, we have that alias for a reason, right?
> >  
> >
> Yes, but what I wanted to say is that I do not understand the reason. 
> "English" is also in the list. Why is not that enough?

You mean, you don't understand the reason for having the "ASCII"
alias?  I could think of a couple of reasons, but I don't actually
know the history of this.  Perhaps someone else does.