From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Tooltips on w32 slow and strange Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:02:32 +0100 Message-ID: <219cc4c54fef9659a45f0ab956038e2e@swipnet.se> References: <016b01c51163$45e1d630$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <16186.217.194.34.123.1108368907.squirrel@wwws.franken.de> <4210762C.9030203@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108408958 3175 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2005 19:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephan Stahl , Emacs Devel , Lennart Borgman , Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 20:22:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0lng-00074B-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:22:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0m3H-0007QC-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0lvB-0002eg-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0luw-0002ZW-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0luw-0002Rj-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:29:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0lUx-0001FP-5i; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:03:07 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050214190305.OZKE17717.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:03:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: Original-To: David Kastrup X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33412 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33412 >> What you will loose is perhaps international characters. Unless of >> course care is taken to convert from Emacs representation to >> whatever w32 uses (UTF8?). > > I think that has been done with menu strings (which is probably what I > confused this with) on several platforms already, and it might also be > possible for tooltips. However, I don't know how hard such a > conversion would turn out, and I don't know whether there exist any > serious applications that indeed require the interpretation of text > properties for tooltips. The same procedure as for menu strings should work OK (well, at least as OK as for menus). Jan D.