Subject: bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 17:23:11 +0300

> From: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 03:43:54 +0530
> 
> Tagalog script  is added to Emacs this time.

Thanks.

> diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
> index 4f6df48129..4ded787888 100644
> --- a/etc/NEWS
> +++ b/etc/NEWS
> @@ -800,6 +800,7 @@ corresponding language environments are:
>  **** Siddham script and language environment
>  **** Syloti Nagri script and language environment
>  **** Modi script and language environment
> +**** Tagalog script and language environment

I think this entry should not be together with the old Indic scripts,
it should be separate from them.  Especially if you intend to add more
scripts/languages used in the Philippines.

> +(set-language-info-alist
> + "Tagalog" '((charset unicode)
> +             (coding-system utf-8)
> +             (coding-priority utf-8)
> +             (input-method . "tagalog")
> +             (sample-text . "Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔)	ᜃᜓᜋᜓᜐ᜔ᜆ")
> +             (documentation . "\
> +Philippine Language Tagalog is supported in this language environment.")))

I wonder whether we should call the language-environment "Tagalog".
Why not "Filipino", which AFAIU is the official language name?
Perhaps also for the input method.