Re: kbd vs read-key-sequence

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:14:51 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Kenichi Handa wrote:
> >>      http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx
> >>     
> >> for the gory details.
> >>     
> >
> > Ummm, by reading that page briefly, it seems that getting
> > Unicode codepoints is much easier.
> >   
> 
> It seems easier, but in fact to DTRT according to the documentation 
> above means dropping support for Windows 95, 98 and ME, and modifying 
> ALL system messages to use Unicode, which is major work. I think it is 
> worth doing that for Emacs 22, because Windows 98 and ME are almost dead 
> now, and probably will be by the time Emacs 22 s released, and also with 
> the change of Emacs' internal representation, Unicode fits better.

I added an entry to etc/TODO based on this.