last update: August 29, 2001.

This is the most current list of priorities in `ben-mule-21-5'.
Updated often.

high-priority:

[input]

-- support for WM_IME_CHAR.  IME input can work under -nuni if we use
   WM_IME_CHAR.  probably we should always be using this, instead of
   snarfing input using WM_COMPOSITION.  i'll check this out.
-- Russian C-x problem.  see above.

[clean-up]

-- make sure it compiles and runs under non-mule.  remember that some
   code needs the unicode support, or at least a simple version of it.
-- make sure it compiles and runs under pdump.  see below.
-- make sure it compiles and runs under cygwin.  see below.
-- clean up mswindows-multibyte, TSTR_TO_C_STRING.  expand dfc
   optimizations to work across chain.
-- eliminate last vestiges of codepage<->charset conversion and similar stuff.

[other]

-- test the "file-coding is binary only on Unix, no-Mule" stuff.
-- test that things work correctly in -nuni if the system environment
   is set to e.g. japanese -- i should get japanese menus, japanese
   file names, etc.  same for russian, hebrew ...
-- cut and paste.  see below.
-- misc issues with handling lang environments.  see also August 25,
   "finally: working on the C-x in ...".
   -- when switching lang env, needs to set keyboard layout.
   -- user var to control whether, when moving into text of a
      particular language, we set the appropriate keyboard layout.  we
      would need to have a lisp api for retrieving and setting the
      keyboard layout, set text properties to indicate the layout of
      text, and have a way of dealing with text with no property on
      it. (e.g. saved text has no text properties on it.) basically,
      we need to get a keyboard layout from a charset; getting a
      language would do.  Perhaps we need a table that maps charsets
      to language environments.
   -- test that the lang env is properly set at startup.  test that
      switching the lang env properly sets the C locale (call
      setlocale(), set LANG, etc.) -- a spawned subprogram should have
      the new locale in its environment.
-- look through everything below and see if anything is missed in this
   priority list, and if so add it.  create a separate file for the
   priority list, so it can be updated as appropriate.


mid-priority:

-- clean up the chain coding system.  its list should specify decode
   order, not encode; i now think this way is more logical.  it should
   check the endpoints to make sure they make sense.  it should also
   allow for the specification of "reverse-direction coding systems":
   use the specified coding system, but invert the sense of decode and
   encode.

-- along with that, places that take an arbitrary coding system and
   expect the ends to be anything specific need to check this, and add
   the appropriate conversions from byte->char or char->byte.

-- get some support for arabic, thai, vietnamese, japanese jisx 0212:
   at least get the unicode information in place and make sure we have
   things tied together so that we can display them.  worry about r2l
   some other time.

-- check the handling of C-c.  can XEmacs itself be interrupted with C-c?
   is that impossible now that we are a window, not a console, app?  at
   least we should work something out with `i', so that if it receives a
   C-c or C-break, it interrupts XEmacs, too.  check out how process groups
   work and if they apply only to console apps.  also redo the way that
   XEmacs sends C-c to other apps.  the business of injecting code should
   be last resort.  we should try C-c first, and if that doesn't work, then
   the next time we try to interrupt the same process, use the injection
   method.