Re: windows-1251 language environment

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:
> > I recompiled Emacs today and found that "Windows-1251" language
> > environment is gone.
>
> I presume you are using Emacs from CVS, where the above mentioned
> language environment was removed a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, that's right.

> > It was not hard for me to hack `language/cyrillic.el' and return that
> > language environment, but i ask you to revert the change in the Emacs
> > CVS tree.
>
> If you had taken the time while hacking cyrillic.el to search for
> "1251", you would find that the "Windows-1251" language environment
> has been replaced by "Bulgarian" and "Belarusian" environments, that
> in addition to using windows-1251 as their default coding-system,
> also configure the default input method appropriately. Since
> "Windows-1251" is not a language, and "Bulgarian" and "Belarusian"
> are, that seems like a good change to me.

That doesn't seem like a proper solution for me, because Russian,
Bulgarian and Belarusian are three different languages.  You can trust
me on this matter - i live in Belarus and speak both Russian and
Belarusian.  The three languages have similar, but not identical
alphabets and, therefore, keyboard layouts.

Maybe "Russian-1251" or something similar would be a better
alternative to "Windows-1251".

Paul Pogonyshev