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>>>>> "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