Subject: Re: bug#55439: [PATCH] Add support for the Modi script

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:05:47 +0300

> From: Visuwesh <[email-masked]>
> Cc: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
>  <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 19:12:58 +0530
> 
> [ FWIW, Odia is the actual pronunciation of the language, Oriya is the
>   anglicised one (Tamil is also a pretty awful anglicisation of the actual
>   language name).  ]

Oriya is also the name of the corresponding Unicode block, and AFAIU
it will never change (due to the Unicode's stability policies).

I think we should say something like "formerly Oriya" in some place
where we document this script.