Mercurial > emacs
changeset 37510:29ba8757d4dc
Document problems with NTEmacs on Windows 2000, related to the
Windows i18n features.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:51:05 +0000 |
parents | ed5dca63a0ed |
children | 226e5ac0edeb |
files | etc/PROBLEMS |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Apr 27 16:26:35 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Apr 27 16:51:05 2001 +0000 @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ 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'. +global-font-lock-mode RET" or by customizing the variable +`global-font-lock-mode'. * Problems in Emacs built with LessTif. @@ -164,6 +165,26 @@ 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