changeset 52782:85ff8647dab6

Non-ASCII in menus.
author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
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: