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Document problems with NTEmacs on Windows 2000, related to the Windows i18n features.

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Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty.  The
recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing`global-font-lock-mode'.

* Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.

The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
emulation for which it is set up.

Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.

An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.

* The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.

This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared
libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't

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Some modes do not use colors unless you turn on the Font-lock mode.
Some people have long ago set their `~/.emacs' files to turn on
Font-lock on X only, so they won't see colors on a tty.  The
recommended way of turning on Font-lock is by typing "M-x
global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable
`global-font-lock-mode'.

* Problems in Emacs built with LessTif.

The problems seem to depend on the version of LessTif and the Motif
emulation for which it is set up.

Emacs can sometimes abort when non-ASCII text, possibly with null
characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer.

An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows
Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed.

Windows 2000 input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.1).
These input methods cause the keyboard to send characters encoded in
the appropriate coding system (e.g., ISO 8859-1 for Latin-1
characters, ISO 8859-8 for Hebrew characters, etc.).  To make this
work, set the keyboard coding system to the appropriate value after
you activate the Windows input method.  For example, if you activate
the Hebrew input method, type "C-x RET k iso-8859-8 RET".  (Emacs
ought to recognize the Windows language-change event and set up the
appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
yet.)

Multilingual text put into the Windows 2000 clipboard by Windows
applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.1).  This
is because Windows 2000 uses Unicode to represent multilingual text,
but Emacs does not yet support Unicode well enough to decode it.  This
means that Emacs can only interchange non-ASCII text with other
Windows 2000 programs if the characters are in the system codepage.
Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and
set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos.

* The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.

This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared
libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't