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Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 |
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Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:41:08 -0700 |
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On 7/18/11 2:04 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Yes, the change would make Emacs Unicode-only --- but every Windows OS
>> in common use supports unicode. Why would requiring unicode support be
>> a problem?
>
> Two reasons: (1) we still support running Emacs on Windows 9X, where
> the Unicode file APIs are (AFAIK) not supported, even if unicows.dll
> is installed
The 9X family is long dead. There's no vendor or driver support; I
don't know how I would even go about testing 9X support. We shouldn't
forgo technical improvement on the account of a dead system.
> and (2) going Unicode means that all the existing APIs
> used by Emacs will have to be switched to Unicode.
Why not do it piecemeal? We can directly call Unicode APIs where
appropriate.
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Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/18
Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/18
Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, David Kastrup, 2011/07/18