# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 1065458515 0
# Node ID 85ff8647dab6197482e7e869262d64540c36fe52
# Parent  ab70a4157c5c4f06024c2c5b0b4d4ba5a2425349
Non-ASCII in menus.

diff -r ab70a4157c5c -r 85ff8647dab6 lispref/keymaps.texi
--- a/lispref/keymaps.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:40:10 2003 +0000
+++ b/lispref/keymaps.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:41:55 2003 +0000
@@ -1694,7 +1694,12 @@
 @noindent
 The @sc{car}, @var{item-string}, is the string to be displayed in the
 menu.  It should be short---preferably one to three words.  It should
-describe the action of the command it corresponds to.
+describe the action of the command it corresponds to.  Note that it is
+not generally possible to display non-ASCII text in menus.  It will
+work for keyboard menus and will work to a large extent when Emacs is
+built with Gtk+ support.@footnote{In this case, the text is first
+encoded using the @code{utf-8} coding system and then rendered by the
+toolkit as it sees fit.}
 
 You can also supply a second string, called the help string, as follows: