Re: multilingual text in frame

[Jason Rumney]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

It seems from the documentation I can find about XSetWMName (), that
compound-text is the correct choice for encoding. But I think that on
a non-Latin-1 system, the following code around line 2520 of xfns.c
might do the wrong thing:


        coding_system = Qcompound_text;
        text.value = x_encode_text (name, coding_system, 0, &bytes, &stringp);
        text.encoding = (stringp ? XA_STRING
                         : FRAME_X_DISPLAY_INFO (f)->Xatom_COMPOUND_TEXT);


You could try changing the last line above to

        text.encoding = FRAME_X_DISPLAY_INFO (f)->Xatom_COMPOUND_TEXT;

If that fixes your problem, then I think a more correct change might
be to change x_encode_text to not set stringp to 1 for Latin-1
strings, since the same problem likely exists elsewhere (menus maybe).