Re: multilingual text in frame

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Kenichi" == Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

  Kenichi> In article <address@hidden>,
  Kenichi> Phillip Lord <address@hidden> writes:
  >> I'm trying to display multi-lingual text in the frame title,
  >> under X.

  >> So for instance I can display "?Que' es esto?" fine in the buffer
  >> (with an upside down ?, and an "e acute" which won't go through
  >> the mail system), but if I try to display it on the frame title,
  >> it gets truncated after the first ascii character.

  Kenichi> The first ascii character is "Q".  Do you mean that "¿Qué
  Kenichi> es esto?" is displayed as "¿Q"?

I'm sorry. As you point out my bug report is wrong. 

It gets truncated before the first non-ascii character. So "?Que' es
esto?" is displayed as "", while "el la'piz" is displayed as "el la",
and so on. 

  Kenichi> And, how did you "try to display it on the frame title"?
  Kenichi> By using the function set-frame-name?

modify-frame-parameters, actually, but I just checked, and
set-frame-name appears to do the same thing.

  >> I'm not sure whether emacs should be able to do this, or not, so
  >> I don't know whether this is a bug, or not!

  >> On a separate front, any advice, as to how to strip non ascii
  >> characters, or rather translate them to return something
  >> equivalent (so "e acute" would return "e" and so on), which I
  >> could use as a work around, would be much appreciated.

  Kenichi> The frame title is displayed by your window manager.
  Kenichi> Perhaps, it's not internationalized.  But, then, it's
  Kenichi> strange that it can at least display "¿".

My thoughts. 

If its any help, I'm running Redhat 7.2, with Sawfish as my window
manager. 

Phil