From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Non-ASCII in Lucid menus Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:58 -0500 Message-ID: <87fyys3c4e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <877jkce8lv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <42341EC4.3060405@swipnet.se> <87r7ijbray.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <7b2c4ca190cea7657e31ed04f07d3377@swipnet.se> <87ll8nk49o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87u0n960b7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111179872 18114 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 21:04:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 18 22:04:32 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOdb-00045c-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:04:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOuA-00078O-0z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOrk-0005uY-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOrg-0005tZ-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:18:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCOre-0005rX-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:18:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCOaZ-00075C-D1; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:59 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.68.217.141]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050318210058.LTDD1694.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:58 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 681C8D7383; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:00:58 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:20:07 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34746 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34746 > Thanks for implementing this. > Is the following TO-DO item now deletable? > ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This > probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly > in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the > pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific > locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary > text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] [The gtk > port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as > Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.] Well, my patch does not address the issue mentioned by Dave: it can only display multilingual chars that are part of the user's locale. Stefan