Re: All platforms fail with Unicode in menus.

[Jan D.]

> > It seems that the string returned by ENCODE_UTF_8 gets collected
> > during GC, resulting in passing garbage to the GTK menu code.
>
> In this case, the Lisp Object returned by ENCODE_UTF_8 is reachable
> from the root set via `menu_items', which is staticpro-ed.  I think
> the problem is that ENCODE_UTF_8 may cause GC, and that leads to
> relocation of string contents by the compaction of small strings.
> Without the call of inhibit_garbage_collection, the buffer list in the
> "Buffers" menu is also corrupted if "Math" menu is present.

Yes, you are correct.  The problem is that the menu code saves a pointer
to the strings in the menus, not the Lisp value, in its internal data
structure.  As it reaches the "Math" menu, the compaction of small 
strings
makes the previously saved pointers point to garbage as the strings has 
been
moved.

This problem has been considered in the code when the 
inhibit_garbage_collection was removed.  The pointers to the strings 
are
not stored until after the whole data structure is done, and no GC can 
happen.  But it is only done properly for the top level (i.e. menu bar)
entries.  Fixing the others should be easy, I'll do it within a day or
two.

        Jan D.