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: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:12:54 +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 1175595224 24652 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2007 10:13:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:13:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 12:13:38 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 1HYg1A-0001Ip-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:13:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYg4I-0005xO-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYg3h-0005qQ-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HYg3f-0005ph-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HYg3e-0005pd-VT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:16:10 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HYg0V-0003aa-4a; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-124-31.inter.net.il [84.229.124.31]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HNH48989 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 13:12:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <46112BFB.7080109@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:14:51 +0100) 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:68985 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:14:51 +0100 > From: Jason Rumney > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org > > Kenichi Handa wrote: > >> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx > >> > >> for the gory details. > >> > > > > Ummm, by reading that page briefly, it seems that getting > > Unicode codepoints is much easier. > > > > 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.