Re: multilingual text in frame

[Jason Rumney]

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.
> 
> 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!

It is a bug. I remember on MS-Windows adding some code to decode the
frame title by locale-coding-system before using it. Looking at
x_set_name() in xfns.c, the X code seems to decode it by the
compound-text coding system. I do not know enough about X to know
whether that is the appropriate thing to do.

Maybe locale-coding-system would be a better choice on X too? Or maybe
it is not related to locale-coding-system, but some newer window
managers use utf-8 instead of compound-text and we need a new variable
to select the frame-title-coding-system?