From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:25:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4296E76D.6030606@gmx.at> References: <4292E6ED.3080806@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117186487 18942 80.91.229.2 (27 May 2005 09:34:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:34:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 27 11:34:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbbDo-00045Z-TR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 11:33:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbbI4-0005O5-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 05:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbbD0-0003MB-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 05:32:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbbCx-0003KC-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 05:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbbCv-0003FZ-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 05:32:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dbb5K-0002hH-9s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 May 2005 05:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 May 2005 09:24:00 -0000 Original-Received: from N706P011.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.32.43]) [62.47.32.43] by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 27 May 2005 11:24:00 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37762 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37762 Jason Rumney wrote: > > Rather than patch the source, can you please try to debug the startup > code at the bottom of w32menu.c that decides whether to use Unicode > menu names. Does Windows ME have a stubbed out version of > unicode_append_menu (AppendMenuW) that does nothing? The code assumes > that if its not supported, that function is not present. > > > The last time I debugged C was more than a decade ago. If you told me exactly what and how to do I could try. Anway, I believe this issue should be resolved before releasing Emacs. Otherwise, any Windows binaries would be fairly useless on 9x/ME. Hence, either (1) drop Unicode menu names entirely for 9x/ME, (2) experiment with unicows.dll (MSLU), opencow.dll, and libunicows. In the latter case you would have to choose whether to make such support available via CVS only - thus anyone who needs unicode on such systems would have to get the necessary libraries separately and link them in accordingly - or build with unicode support and pack the dll's with the binaries - for obvious resons this is impossible in the unicows case. Clearly, someone would have to test whether these libraries are capable of supporting Unicode menu names at all.