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