Re: National Language Support Functions

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On 12/29/06, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It would be very good if we continued this discussion.
> 
> And if no agreement can be reached, will you add another patch to your
> binary Emacs distribution and make it still more divergent, or will
> you accept that perhaps it is better to leave it as it stands now?


I have already said I agreed. Somehow I misunderstood the problem 
thinking that keyboard layout was involved. It is not and I really do 
not understand why I thought that.

Sorry for the trouble, but at least I know now how Emacs works in this 
area and why the choice was made. It would probably be good if it was 
explained in the manual.

I have no intention of making my Emacs binary distribution be different 
from Emacs default if I can avoid it. On the other hand there are still 
bugs I know about that affects the w32 side mostly. I will tell as soon 
as I get time. I have made no patches for those bugs and would be glad 
if we fixed them instead.

The purpose of my binary distribution was (as I several times has said) 
to make it more easy to get Emacs up and running on w32. I was surprised 
that it was so difficult and time consuming. I know it is not a very 
high priority to make this easier, mostly because of lack of resources.