# HG changeset patch # User Jason Rumney # Date 1015964844 0 # Node ID aa8ab3ba14d1f85bcec8b6217ec028aa0ef1d3ea # Parent fdcc07ad8e45d038b8a7bc5a2215b8e812e8a3ab Added note about format-time-string deficiencies on MS-Windows. diff -r fdcc07ad8e45 -r aa8ab3ba14d1 etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Mar 12 19:15:06 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Mar 12 20:27:24 2002 +0000 @@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ what causes these problems; they are not reproducible by Emacs developers. -* Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.1. - -Emacs 21.1 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images and the tool bar. +* Known problems with the MS-Windows port of Emacs 21.2. + +Emacs 21.2 built for MS-Windows doesn't support images and the tool bar. Support for these will be added in future versions. Frames are not refreshed while the File or Font dialog or a pop-up menu @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. -Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.1). Some +Windows input methods are not recognized by Emacs (as of v21.2). Some of 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 @@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ yet.) Multilingual text put into the Windows clipboard by other Windows -applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.1). This +applications cannot be safely pasted into Emacs (as of v21.2). This is because Windows 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 @@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ Reportedly, a partial solution is to install the Mule-UCS package and set selection-coding-system to utf-16-le-dos. +The %h format specifier for format-time-string does not work on Windows. +The %b format specifier does not produce abbreviated month names with +consistent widths for some locales on some versions of Windows. This is +caused by a deficiency in the underlying system library function. + * The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared