Re: Unicode input on Windows Emacs: any plans?

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On 2014-03-25, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Unicode support in Windows console applications sucks big time,
>> so much so that I consider it a waste of time and effort to support
>> that in text mode.

There is no difference in support of Event-Loop vs Console
applications on Windows, as far as the application has no need to
distinguish possible-accelerators from dead-keys.

> Actually, I see that even this is inaccurate: we do use
> ReadConsoleInputW in text-mode session on Windows NT and later, so
> Unicode keyboard input is supported even on a console.  (However,
> console output still only supports the current OEM codepage.)

Which means: “it does not work”.  Exactly the same as in the
Event-loop mode.

Ilya