Re: Request for Comments: Release 4.2

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Rik 
> To: Octave-Maintainers 
> Cc: John W. Eaton  Mike Miller 
> Date: 2016/6/25, Sat 05:32
> Subject: Request for Comments: Release 4.2
> 
> All,
> 
> The Octave maintainers are considering a 4.2 release this fall in order to
> coincide with the Debian 9 release.
> 
> To be included Octave would need to be ready for packaging by October
> 15th.  This suggests starting with a release candidate on September 1st.
> 
> Given that there are still 2 months of development time, what should the
> priority projects be this summer?
> 
> Not that I know how to resolve it, but I would put Ctrl+C handling near the
> top as well as any bugs in the build system.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rik

Files and directories with non-ASCII characters not handled correctly on Windows

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=42036


The above is long lived bug and 
  *very very annoying*
for windows user on 
  *non-English regions.*


To overcome this we have to use win32 api file io supporting unicode.
However, implementation is not straight forward with keeping code compatibility.

Tatsuro