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24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 7418 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:04:43 -0500

Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org> writes:

>>> ,----
>>> | Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική)	Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
>>> | Latin (latina)	Salve
>>> `----
>
>> Latin is not very useful,
>
> So are English, Italian, Dutch/Nederlands and Norwegian. But I agree,
> I had added Latin just for completeness.
>
>> but adding ancient Greek is a good idea.
>> Where did you get the text from?
>
> It's as classic as Greek can get. :-) For example, the greeting
> appears in Homer's Odyssey (book 24, line 403):

Checked into emacs-23, thanks.

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