Re: Windows 9X without KernelEx

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:42:30 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > mentioned in the patch separately.  Some of them I'd simply ignore:
> > for example, it makes no sense to me to fix the Uniscribe support if
> > its broken, since we prefer HarfBuzz anyway.
> 
> BTW, there's no "fix" to Uniscribe support, but merely code that enables
> Emacs to avoid linking to USP10.DLL, in the spirit of other OS features
> whose existence is established at runtime.

Does Emacs refuse to start up on Windows 98 due to USP10.DLL?

I just checked, and my old Windows 98 did have USP10.DLL.  AFAIR,
Uniscribe came with IE 5, so I think every Windows system nowadays
should have it, if it's still being used.

If needed, we can document that Uniscribe is required for Emacs to run
on Windows 9X.  I'd prefer this to complicating the code more than we
already have.  Especially since Uniscribe is supported as a fallback,
and is likely to be removed at some future point.