From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:16:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob0uywha.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83txamz1md.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395771432 14567 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 18:17:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:17:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 19:17:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVua-0003xp-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:17:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVuZ-00057o-L1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVuK-00057J-20 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVuD-0001a4-GG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVuD-0001Zo-90 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N300050081BGC00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:16:55 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N30005YO8479O20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:16:55 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83txamz1md.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96757 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:25:46 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > Unicode support in Windows console applications sucks big time, > so much so that I consider it a waste of time and effort to support > that in text mode. Actually, I see that even this is inaccurate: we do use ReadConsoleInputW in text-mode session on Windows NT and later, so Unicode keyboard input is supported even on a console. (However, console output still only supports the current OEM codepage.)