On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Jan Djärv writes:
>
>> Exactly how do you show the buffer name within Emacs?
>
> You mean how do we show it in the frame title?  We don't do anything
> special.  Emacs seems to put the buffer name in the frame title
> automatically.
>
> If you do
>
>  (generate-new-buffer "שולח דואר אלקטרוני")
>
> and switch to that buffer inside Emacs, you will probably find that
> the buffer name shows correctly in the mode line, but it doesn't show
> correctly in the fram etitle.
>
>>  Does the buffername have any coding that isn't UTF-8?
>
> I don't know what that means!  There is no coding now.  The buffer
> name is just an Emacs multibyte string.
>
> Cheers,
> Uday
>

I am attaching a snapshot of the emacs frame.  once I do
vm-discard-message-cache as uday suggested, the frame title is fine
now.  (Uday, it seems that when I then exit vm and start it again, the
problem returns).  E