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Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans?
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Ilya Zakharevich |
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Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans? |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:40:29 +0000 (UTC) |
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Is there any plan to have Unicode input enabled on Windows?
Currently, this is what I’m forced to write about Emacs:
NOTE: Among notable applications which fail spectacularly is
Emacs. The developers forget that for a generation, it is already
XXI century; so they use ToAscii() instead of ToUnicode()! (Even if
ToUnicode() is available, its result is converted to the result of
the corresponding ToAscii() code.)
In addition to 8-bitness, Emacs also suffers from
check-for-specials-first syndrome…
(from the discussion on how to implement a CORRECT Unicode input in an
Event-loop application on Windows; see:
http://search.cpan.org/~ilyaz/UI-KeyboardLayout/lib/UI/KeyboardLayout.pm#Can_an_application_on_Windows_accept_keyboard_events?_Part_I:_insert_only
and 3 following parts).
Ilya
P.S. I believe that until it was documented above, it was not known
how to process Windows’ input correctly (and it is still not
known how to do it CORRECTLY from console applications: I can
find no way to find the input locale, so do not know how to
distinguish a dead key from a possible part of “a command”).
But now, when it IS documented, there IS a chance to make Emacs
into a good citizen…
P.P.S. The last time I inspected the source code of Emacs was several
months ago; I could not post before, so maybe my info is
obsolete now.
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