Re: Possible change to startup.el

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > The interface that has been proposed is defined so as to make
>     > complete informatoin available about what is or isn't
>     > supported.  That makes it so complex to implement--to complex
>     > to be considered for now, and undesirable even for later.
>
>     I can't quite see why having complete information about what is
>     or isn't supported would be undesirable for later.
>
> You misunderstood what I said.  I did not say the feature was
> undesirable, I said the complexity to implement it was undesirable.
>
>     It seems reasonable to solve this task once, within Emacs.
>
> I hope to avoid solving it ever, if possible.

Well, the way to do that would be to have _all_ window systems work
through Unicode encoded menus, which would then reduce the test to
(or window-system
  (uh-is-this-legal-p
    (encode-coding-string string locale-coding-system)))

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum