From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 6705@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:26:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y6d2tryf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimBWvF4d6xTTjA55pYR5TNm07isPWV7B6hK3eqM@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:56:33 +0200
> Cc: Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra@gmail.com>, 6705@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:50, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > The Windows build of Emacs doesn't yet use the UTF-16 APIs. Doing
> > that is a large job; volunteers are welcome, of course.
>
> What do you mean, using the W versions of API functions? That would be
> incompatible with 16-bit Windows (or, at least, as compatible as the
> Microsoft Layer for Unicode allows, and I wouldn't like to bet on it).
> Or are you talking about abandoning 16-bit Windows compatibility?
Neither. I'm talking about using the W APIs on versions of Windows
that support them, and A APIs elsewhere, including on Windows 9X.
That's why I said this is a non-trivial job.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-22 12:31 bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion) Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 14:33 ` Jason Rumney
2010-07-22 18:14 ` bug#6546: " Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-22 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-22 20:59 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 10:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 12:57 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 15:35 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 18:53 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-23 21:53 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-24 20:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-25 10:10 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 19:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 19:51 ` Laimonas Vėbra
2010-07-23 19:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-22 22:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-23 10:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-25 23:38 ` Stefan Monnier
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