From: Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multilingual text in frame
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:16:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18bJnY-0004fO-00@gannet.scg.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18b2yK-0007w7-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:18:04 -0500)
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> 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
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-01-21 18:18 ` multilingual text in frame Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 12:16 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2003-01-17 14:06 Phillip Lord
2003-01-18 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-18 18:35 ` Jesper Harder
2003-01-20 12:50 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.524.1042889362.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-20 12:50 ` Phillip Lord
2003-01-20 15:44 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-20 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-20 20:28 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-20 20:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-21 11:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 18:06 ` Ehud Karni
[not found] ` <mailman.673.1043149750.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-21 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
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