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Added note about format-time-string deficiencies on MS-Windows.
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:27:24 +0000
parents fdcc07ad8e45
children 606bb58da5c4
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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