Re: Issue in man page charsets.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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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@helgefjell.de> 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.

> 
> Kind regards,
>      Bernd
> 
> PS: Keen to learn something.

Cheers,

Alex

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