Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 9:29 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Bernd, > > On 1/29/23 20:20, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > On 29/01/2023 19:35, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > [...] > >> On 1/29/23 17:45, Stefan Puiu wrote: > > [...] > >>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:39 PM Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [...] > >>>> "Latin-1 covers many West European languages such as Albanian, Basque," > >>>> "Danish, English, Faroese, Galician, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian," > >>>> "Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. The lack of the ligatures Dutch IJ/ij," > >>>> "French œ, and old-style „German“ quotation marks was considered tolerable." > >>> > >>> A bit weird to include Albanian in West European languages, isn't it? > >>> Maybe the text could be reworked to: > >>> > >>> "many West European languages such as Basque, Danish, [... other > >>> languages ...] and also Albanian." > >> > >> I'd rather remove the "West" adjective from Europe. It's simpler. Does it > >> sound reasonable to you? > > > > And it's way more accurate: > > - Albanian is Balkan. > > - Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish is Scandinavian. > > - Italy is (usually) southern Europe. > > - Faroese is propably also Scandinavian. > > - Where is actually Galician spoken? In the north-west of Spain? > > Yep, Galician is the language spoken in Galicia, in the north-west of spain. > It's a language very similar to Portuguese. > > Will fix then. Well, I think it might be that the intention was to suit Western European languages (although yes, strictly speaking there are multiple language families involved), and Albanian just happened to be able to use the same charset. I'm thinking of latin-1 in contrast to latin-2, which I was using in the past for Romanian. Stefan. > > > > > Kind regards, > > Bernd > > > > PS: Keen to learn something. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
