Mercurial > emacs
changeset 52782:85ff8647dab6
Non-ASCII in menus.
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:41:55 +0000 |
| parents | ab70a4157c5c |
| children | 3832b88b0957 |
| files | lispref/keymaps.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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: