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#43887
28.0.50; in HELLO: Javanese (Jawa) System.out.println("Sugeng siang!");
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Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:57:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Merged with 33178
Found in version 28.0.50
Fixed in version 28.1
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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>>>>> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:05:39 -0400, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> said:
Stefan> Mattias EngdegÄrd <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:
>> I therefore propose removal of the all-ASCII lines for: C (silly),
>> Dutch, Emacs (not very useful for someone already looking at the
>> buffer), Italian and Norwegian.
>>
>> There are also way too many lines that only demonstrate the Latin-1
>> subset, of which we should keep only one or two: Danish, Estonian,
>> Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Stefan> You have a point, of course. But how long before we get patches to add
Stefan> these languages back, and then get to have another round of discussing
Stefan> this?
Stefan> I think it's better to just leave it all alone. The list is long, but
Stefan> not overly so. If we want to avoid having to scroll for testing
Stefan> purposes, we could instead extend the "Non-ASCII examples" section at
Stefan> the top.
The list being long is a feature: when you've screwed something up
that causes a crash or a slowdown with the more esoteric scripts
towards the end of the file, having to scroll gives you the opportunity
to set your debugging up beforehand :-)
Robert
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