From: Daniel Glassey (danglassey@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 07:17:48 EDT
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> --- Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>
> wrote: >
>
>>Since the win32 Unicode patch Win32 keyboard is the
>>completely
>>broken: on my Win98SE I cannot input characters with
>>any other
>>keyboard layout than English (any non ASCII
>>characters come through
>>as the higher part of the ANSI page). That just
>>about leaves AW
>>unusable for me, and what's worse it makes it
>>impossible for me to
>>work on some bugs that are rather urgent -- I do not
>>want to step on
>>anyone's toes, but this is either needs to be fixed
>>straight away, or
>>the whole Unicode patch will need to be reverted.
>
>
> When I was working on this code a couple of years ago
> I had multiple Windows installations: Windows 95,
> Windows 98, and Windows 2000. I would test all my
> changes under all three OSes, and under different
> combinations of user locale and system locale,
> including Unicode-only locales on Windows 2000.
>
> I recommend this as the *only* way to work on such
> sensitive and important code. It's a lot of trouble
> but it's a lot less trouble than breaking the build
> for everybody else.
The alternative is for a group to be working on and testing intl stuff
who, between them, have all relevant OS's/input setups. Nothing should
be committed in that area until it is tested on all of them. Are there
enough people around for that?
> I highly recommend VMWare for just this purpose too.
> In fact I wonder if we'd be able to get VMWare to
> donate us a license or two (:
>
> If you work on this code and can't test under all
> various input setups, then please just submit a patch
> rather than comitting directly to the tree. Especially
> so close to an important release.
point taken.
Regards,
Daniel
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