Subject: bug#6705: w32 cmdproxy.c pass args to cygwin; erroneous charset conversion (problem description, solution/suggestion)

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:56:33 +0200

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:50, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The Windows build of Emacs doesn't yet use the UTF-16 APIs.  Doing
> that is a large job; volunteers are welcome, of course.

What do you mean, using the W versions of API functions? That would be
incompatible with 16-bit Windows (or, at least, as compatible as the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode allows, and I wouldn't like to bet on it).
Or are you talking about abandoning 16-bit Windows compatibility?

    Juanma