Re: Non-ASCII in Lucid menus

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>     Well, my patch does not address the issue mentioned by Dave: it
>>     can only display multilingual chars that are part of the user's
>>     locale.
>> Could it select the locale according to the characters to be displayed?
>
> The locale info is embedded somewhere in the Xt widget info (I'm not sure
> where, really), so maybe it can be done, but I don't know how.
> It's probably easier to temporarily select a utf-8 locale when creating the
> widget, so as to get the same behavior as Gtk where the menus always use
> utf-8.

That sounds very sensible.

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