Merge from trunk.

[bpt/emacs.git] / etc / NEWS

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8ee1024..7f9aeff 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -991,6 +991,14 @@ files are in share/emacs/VERSION/etc.  (Emacs knows about all these
 directories and will find the files in there automatically; there's no
 need to set any variables due to this change.)
 
++++
+** Emacs on Windows 2000 and later can now access files and directories
+whose names cannot be encoded in the current system codepage.
+
+The new variable `w32-unicode-filenames' controls this feature: if it
+is t, Emacs uses Unicode APIs to pass file names to system calls,
+which lifts the limitation of file names to the current locale.
+
 +++
 ** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the