From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multilingual text in frame Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:04 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: p.lord@russet.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043238184 870 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 12:23:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:23:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bJuH-0000DI-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18bJw1-0000mo-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:24:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bJuY-0001dg-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:23:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bJsz-0000sk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bJqW-0000Ac-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from gannet.scg.man.ac.uk ([130.88.94.110]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bJnZ-0007dC-00; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:16:05 -0500 Original-Received: from rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk ([130.88.198.228]) by gannet.scg.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 18bJnY-0004fO-00; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:04 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:18:04 -0500) X-Attribution: Phil X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10972 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10972 >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman writes: Phil> So for instance I can display "?Que' es esto?" fine in Phil> the buffer (with an upside down ?, and an "e acute" Phil> which won't go through the mail system), but if I try Phil> to display it on the frame title, it gets truncated Phil> after the first ascii character. Phil> I'm not sure whether emacs should be able to do this, Phil> or not, so I don't know whether this is a bug, or not! Richard> In principle, the failure to handle multilingual text in Richard> any context is a bug. There is code in x_set_name (xfns.c) Richard> to encode non-ASCII chars in the coding system Richard> compound-text. Could you investigate why this feature does Richard> not work? I'm afraid I'm only really competent to debug lisp. I've never written C in anger, or used any of the tools. Phil> On a separate front, any advice, as to how to strip non Phil> ascii characters, or rather translate them to return Phil> something equivalent (so "e acute" would return "e" and Phil> so on), which I could use as a work around, would be Phil> much appreciated. Richard> I don't think we have anything like this. We could add it Richard> if someone implements it. Richard> It might be useful in menus, as long as menus can't fully Richard> handle non-ASCII chars. I'll think about having a go at this. Phil