Re: Request for Comments: Release 4.2

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

>>  From: Rik 

>>  To: Octave-Maintainers 
>>  Cc: John W. Eaton  Mike Miller 
>>  Date: 2016/6/25, Sat 05:32
>>  Subject: Request for Comments: Release 4.2
>> 
>>  All,
>> 
>>  The Octave maintainers are considering a 4.2 release this fall in order to
>>  coincide with the Debian 9 release.
>> 
>>  To be included Octave would need to be ready for packaging by October
>>  15th.  This suggests starting with a release candidate on September 1st.
>> 
>>  Given that there are still 2 months of development time, what should the
>>  priority projects be this summer?
>> 
>>  Not that I know how to resolve it, but I would put Ctrl+C handling near the
>>  top as well as any bugs in the build system.
>> 
>>  Cheers,
>>  Rik
> 
> Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on 
> Windows
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=42036
> 
> 
> The above is long lived bug and 
>   *very very annoying*
> for windows user on 
>   *non-English regions.*
> 
> 
> To overcome this we have to use win32 api file io supporting unicode.
> However, implementation is not straight forward with keeping code 
> compatibility.
> 
> Tatsuro


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Correction 
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> To overcome this we have to use win32 api file io supporting unicode.
> However, implementation is not straight forward with keeping code 
> compatibility.


To overcome this we have to use win32 api file io which supports unicode.

However, implementation is not straight forward with keeping code portability.


Tasturo