[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS [emacs-unicode-2]

[Miles Bader]

Index: emacs/etc/PROBLEMS
diff -c emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.156.2.2 emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.156.2.3
*** emacs/etc/PROBLEMS:1.156.2.2        Fri Apr 16 12:49:39 2004
--- emacs/etc/PROBLEMS  Mon Jun 28 07:29:29 2004
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  It's completely redundant now, as far as we know.
  
+ * Environment Variables from dotfiles are ignored with Mac OS X (Carbon).
+ 
+ When starting Emacs from the Dock or the Finder on Mac OS X, the
+ environment variables that are set up in dotfiles, such as .cshrc or
+ .profile, are ignored.  This is because the Finder and Dock are not
+ started from a shell, but instead from the Window Manager itself.
+ 
+ The workaround for this is to create a .MacOSX/environment.plist file to
+ setup these environment variables.  These environment variables will
+ apply to all processes regardless of where they are started.
+ For me information, see http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html.
+ 
  * Segfault on GNU/Linux using certain recent versions of the Linux kernel.
  
  With certain recent Linux kernels (like the one of Redhat Fedora Core
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    configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
  
+ * Building the MS-Windows port fails with a CreateProcess failure.
+ 
+ Some versions of mingw32 make on some versions of Windows do not seem
+ to detect the shell correctly. Try "make SHELL=cmd.exe", or if that
+ fails, try running make from Cygwin bash instead.
+ 
  * Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory.
  
  The error message might be something like this:
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  appropriate keyboard encoding automatically, but it doesn't do that
  yet.)
  
- Windows uses UTF-16 encoding to deal with multilingual text (text not
- encodable in the `system codepage') in the clipboard.  To deal with
- this, load the library `utf-16' and use `set-selection-coding-system'
- to set the clipboard coding system to `utf-16-le-with-signature-dos'.
- 
  The %b specifier for format-time-string 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
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