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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: Re: bug#7418: 24.0.50; Ancient Greek and Latin missing in etc/HELLO
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:36:35 -0500

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

> there's neither ancient Greek nor Latin in etc/HELLO yet.
> Especially the former would be nice to have, since it would test
> if the installed fonts can display characters from Unicode block
> U1F00-U1FFF (Greek extended).
>
> I therefore propose to add the following two lines:
>
> ,----
> | Greek, ancient (ἑλληνική)	Οὖλέ τε καὶ μέγα χαῖρε
> | Latin (latina)	Salve
> `----

Latin is not very useful, but adding ancient Greek is a good idea.
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