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Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32 |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:24:02 -0700 |
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On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I don't recall that discussion. Can we reopen it? According to [1],
> Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%.
>
> That must be hundreds of thousands of people.
~300,000 if we assume 1 billion people worldwide. That's still
miniscule in proportion --- and of those 300,000, how many are savvy
enough to be Emacs users?
If there _are_ any remaining Windows 9X Emacs users, dropping 9X support
will be doing them a favor: using an OS that doesn't receive security
updates is terribly dangerous. Besides, they'll always have Emacs 24
and below.
> We should not be in a hurry to delete code that is already in Emacs
> and might be useful for someone.
The code will always be there in the version control history.
On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> What is meant by "going all Unicode"? That sounds like a drastic
> change.
Not really --- Each Windows API comes in two versions: an "ANSI" one
that accepts strings using legacy character encoding and a "Unicode" one
that accepts UTF-16LE strings. All we have to do is start calling the
latter functions instead of the former.
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- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, David Kastrup, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Daniel Colascione, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Stallman, 2011/07/19
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Lennart Borgman, 2011/07/20
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Jason Rumney, 2011/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Richard Riley, 2011/07/18
Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/07/18