From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kbd vs read-key-sequence Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:03:00 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4610139D.3060909@gnu.org> <46112BFB.708010 9@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175709807 19501 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 18:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 20:03:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZ9p3-0001vY-Qq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:03:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ9sL-0002Fw-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:06:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ9sH-0002Dx-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ9sG-0002Co-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:06:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ9sG-0002Ce-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:06:24 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZ9ox-0006qb-CF; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:02:59 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-68-143.inter.net.il [80.230.68.143]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CGS33422 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:02:52 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:08 -0400) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:69067 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:08 -0400 > > > It seems easier, but in fact to DTRT according to the documentation > > above means dropping support for Windows 95, 98 and ME, and modifying > > ALL system messages to use Unicode, which is major work. I think it is > > worth doing that for Emacs 22, because Windows 98 and ME are almost dead > > now, and probably will be by the time Emacs 22 s released, and also with > > the change of Emacs' internal representation, Unicode fits better. > > I added an entry to etc/TODO based on this. > > As I've already said, I think this change would probably be a bad > thing. People can try it and see whether it works well enough > on the old Windows versions. But if it doesn't, I think it should > not be installed. If you've read what I added to TODO, you know that I never meant to encourage a change that will not work on Windows 9x.