Re: Language environments

[Richard Stallman]

    Maybe.  Currently, by far the only difference between the various Latin-1 
    language environments is the default input method.  Isn't this a waste?

I do not see the waste.  What exactly is it that you think is a waste?

    Personally, I was surprised that the menu-bar item for "Emacs Tutorial 
    (choose language)..." depended on the list of known language 
    environments (via read-language-name).  Isn't it better to just look at 
    etc/TUTORIAL.* and work from there?

Maybe, but then one needs to have a table mapping these file names
to language names.  Yes, it is standard that "fr" means French, but Emacs
still has to get the connection from somewhere.

There is a Lisp file which has a list of country codes; perhaps it has
the language codes too.  We could use this file to map the file names
to the languages.  But this file must be pretty large--is that really an
improvement?