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Re: Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans? |
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Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:38:07 +0300 |
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:39:02 +0000 (UTC)
>
> On the other hand, an application is not REQUIRED to call ToUnicode();
> it may rely on delivery of WM_CHAR instead. So it looks like what you
> call “support of Unicode input” is that in some rare cases, Emacs
> calls TranslateMessage() (which enables delivery of WM_CHAR). (I
> cannot still understand the logic of operation; to me, it looks like a
> complete mess of special cases…)
No, I meant that the input loop now gets Unicode codepoints on systems
that support that. More often than not, ToUnicode is not needed.
> This matches my experiments with 24.3: the simplest cases of Unicode
> input work, the more complicated ones fail.¹⁾
Please report those cases as bugs, and please include all the
necessary details to reproduce the problems. Thanks.
> It IS possible to handle keyboard input on Windows WITHOUT any special
> cases. (See the reference in the original message.) You cannot
> decide what to do with keypress without either calling ToUnicode(), or
> inspecting the following WM_CHAR message (may be done by
> peaking — after TranslateMessage()).
Patches to do that are welcome. (I don't think we have anyone on
board right now who knows as much as you do about this.)
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