Re: new Emacs HELLO file??

[Juri Linkov]

> Language Tags are not recommended by the Unicode (as long as there is
> other ways to describe language, such as XML lang attributes), but it is
> the only way to describe language in plain text.  Or switch we switch
> HELLO file from plain text to some XML format?

Or maybe switch to a simpler markup like in emacs/etc/enriched.doc
(and add the language tag support to this format).

> I'll attach updated HELLO examples as follows, that incorporates all the
> languages I could find "HELLO" word, plus Language Tag usage examples
> (someday Emacs may support it?) and fixed the logical order of Arabic
> language.

Thanks, your new list is surprisingly compact.  I have only a few comments.

1. In the current HELLO file the greeting in Slovak is correct
(see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dobr%C3%BD_de%C5%88 )
and displays non-ASCII characters.  I think it's better to keep
the current greeting for Slovak.

2. Esperanto used to display a nice diacritical pangram "Eĥoŝanĝo ĉiuĵaŭde".
Even thought it's not a greeting, I think we should keep it.

3. You could replace the old Euro currency U+20A0 ₠ with the new one
U+20AC €.

4. Klingon uses the Private Use Area U+F8D0 - U+F8FF
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Test_Klingon.html

5. You've removed charsets jisx0201 and jisx0208 from Japanese greetings.
Is it because they are not needed for font selection, or just because
the transfer charset in your message was utf-8?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/