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>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

  Jesper> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

  >> But here I am stymied. Although Emacs can display text such as
  >> "?Qui es esto?" in the buffer fine, it has a much harder time in
  >> the frame, and appears to chop everything off, after the strange
  >> character.

  Jesper> Are you running Emacs under X11?  If so, what's your locale?

  Jesper> I can display Latin-1 (my locale) characters in the frame
  Jesper> title just fine.  But characters from other charsets don't
  Jesper> work.


Not sure, but probably English_GB, or some such. The problem is that I
want to be able to display text that is not in the same language as
the "background" locale. 


Cheers

Phil