Re: multilingual text in frame

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, 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.

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

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

> 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. 

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

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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