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[PATCH] Add support for the Modi script

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From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
 <lumarzeli30 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55439 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#55439: [PATCH] Add support for the Modi script
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 21:45:11 +0530

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> So how about using one of those latter ones for the Hindi line in
> HELLO?


Ok I will do that.

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 9:17 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 20:28:01 +0530
> > Cc: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>, 55439 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org
> >
> >  AFAIU, Hindi is one language that uses the Devanagari script.  Is this
> >  correct?  If that is correct, how about having two lines in HELLO: one
> >  that says "Hindi" and shows a Hindi greeting, and another that says
> >  "Devanagari" and shows a greeting in some other language that uses
> >  Devanagari?
> >
> > The problem is, like Visuwesh said, most of the languages which use
> Devanagari use Namaste/Namaskaar
> > as a greeting.
> >
> >  Either way, I will ask for a greeting in Marathi, which uses the
> >  Devanagari script as well.
> >
> > Marathi also uses Namsakaar.
> >
> > Of course there are also local greetings, so one solution is to use the
> standard greetings in Devanagari
> > and local ones in Hindi, like रामराम (raam raam), पायलागू (paay lagu)
> etc.
>
> So how about using one of those latter ones for the Hindi line in
> HELLO?
>

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