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Clarify potential drawback of previous change.

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Richard M. Stallman 2007-04-05 23:39:08 +00:00
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@ -232,20 +232,24 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input.
** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
will then come in encoded in UTF-16. Problem: using this on Windows
9x/ME requires to install the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU),
which might not implement all the required functionality that is
available built-in on Windows XP and later.
will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
modifiers.
Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
downgrade to versions that require activation.
** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text