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[PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: lumarzeli30 <at> gmail.com
Cc: 55529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55529: [PATCH] Add support for the Tagalog script
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 12:38:46 +0300

> Cc: 55529 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 11:23:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> >  Looking at this another way: what will an Emacs user expect to find in
> >  Emacs as the supported language for the Philippines?
> > 
> > Atleast according to me, correct me if I am  a filipino user will use the Roman script for the filipino language,
> > while writing Tagalog he may look for Baybayin, which we
> > have provided under the Tagalog language environment.
> 
> OK, but please revise the doc strings and the comments to make sure we
> use "Tagalog" for the language and "Baybayin" for the script (except
> where we use the script name inherited from Unicode, which is actually
> the name of the Unicode block).  AFAICT, the patch you posted wasn't
> consistent in that regard.  And NEWS should mention both the language
> and the script names.

Btw, what fonts are considered to be good nowadays for displaying
Tagalog/Baybayin?

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