Re: Windows 9X without KernelEx

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:12:36 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Does Emacs refuse to start up on Windows 98 due to USP10.DLL?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I would be really averse to this solution, because the first two
> downloads of this file I tried were flagged as viruses (or were
> distributed as installer programs so flagged), and the alternative is
> only small number of lines of extra code.  Of course, I possess a proper
> copy of this file, but that fact is of no assistance to the next person.

Let's first hear from such a person, if he/she exists.  I don't want
to complicate our code, and thus run the risk of introducing bugs, on
behalf of a largely imaginary problem, sorry.