; * etc/NEWS: Announce renaming of "Oriya" to "Odia". (Bug#55493)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8aa53e62e0bb948b538fd0472aa3a31e5cf20795..4f6df48129e973da0f37c06a957dbb89baece92f 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@ Setting it to a non-nil value temporarily disables automatic
 composition of character sequences at point, and thus makes it easier
 to edit such sequences by allowing point to "enter" the sequence.
 
+---
 *** Support for many old scripts and writing systems.
 Emacs now supports and has language-environments and input methods for
 several dozens of old scripts that were used in the past for various
@@ -800,6 +801,13 @@ corresponding language environments are:
 **** Syloti Nagri script and language environment
 **** Modi script and language environment
 
+---
+*** The "Oriya" language environment was renamed to "Odia".
+This is to follow the change in the official name of the script.  The
+'oriya' input method was also renamed to 'odia'.  However, the old
+name of the language environment and the input method are still
+supported.
+
 ---
 *** New Greek translation of the Emacs tutorial.
 Type 'C-u C-h t' to select it in case your language setup does not do