On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I don't recall that discussion.  Can we reopen it?  According to [1],
>     Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%.
> 
> That must be hundreds of thousands of people.

~300,000 if we assume 1 billion people worldwide.  That's still
miniscule in proportion --- and of those 300,000, how many are savvy
enough to be Emacs users?

If there _are_ any remaining Windows 9X Emacs users, dropping 9X support
will be doing them a favor: using an OS that doesn't receive security
updates is terribly dangerous.  Besides, they'll always have Emacs 24
and below.

> We should not be in a hurry to delete code that is already in Emacs
> and might be useful for someone.

The code will always be there in the version control history.

On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> What is meant by "going all Unicode"?  That sounds like a drastic
> change.

Not really --- Each Windows API comes in two versions: an "ANSI" one
that accepts strings using legacy character encoding and a "Unicode" one
that accepts UTF-16LE strings.  All we have to do is start calling the
latter functions instead of the former.