From a7abe8678600fc64365cc2491f82c0d3a140d001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:39:08 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify potential drawback of previous change. --- etc/TODO | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO index be13cc43669..4c1e15f4dbd 100644 --- a/etc/TODO +++ b/etc/TODO @@ -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