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25.0.50; Unicode keyboard input on Windows

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 19994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19994: 25.0.50; Unicode keyboard input on Windows
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:52:08 +0200

> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:43:32 -0800
> From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya <at> math.berkeley.edu>
> Cc: 19994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:01:01PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > +static int
> > > +get_wm_chars (HWND aWnd, int *buf, int buflen, int ignore_ctrl, int ctrl, int
> >                             ^^^^^^^^
> > Why 'int' and not 'wchar_t'?
> 
> This is for a Unicode chars.  They won’t fit into (Windows’ style) wchar_t.

Right.

> > Also, will this code work for the non-w32_unicode_gui mode?
> 
> This code is pure-GUI.  For non-GUI “bindable” input on Windows the
> major hurdle is that 

No, that's not what I meant.  I meant GUI sessions in which
w32_unicode_gui is zero, i.e. Windows 9X systems.

Console input is a different matter (and is handled separately, see
w32inevt.c).

Thanks.

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