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30.2; format-time-string returns wrongly encoded string in MS Windows Japanese with cp65001 beta config

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Message #44 received at 79296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 79296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, corwin <at> bru.st, shingo.fg8 <at> gmail.com,
 eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: bug#79296: 30.2;
 format-time-string returns wrongly encoded string in MS Windows Japanese with
 cp65001 beta config
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:19:00 +0200

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> OK, now let's try to establish whether your Emacs was linked against
> UCRT or MSVCRT.

I just did that:

> - Emacs 30.2 (latest, https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-30/)

Downloaded and unpacked it, and ran
  $ dumpbin /imports emacs.exe

Result: It is linked against msvcrt.dll.

So, there is no way to make these binaries work right in the UTF-8 environment
of Windows.

Bruno

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