From xemacs-m  Wed Jan 22 09:37:09 1997
Received: from newman (root@newman.aventail.com [38.225.141.10])
          by xemacs.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP
	  id JAA06816 for <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:37:06 -0600 (CST)
Received: from kramer.in.aventail.com.aventail.com (wmperry@kramer [192.168.1.12]) by newman (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA16901 for <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:35:43 -0800
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 07:35:43 -0800
Message-Id: <199701221535.HAA16901@newman>
From: "William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: MULE menus busted...
In-Reply-To: <199701220624.WAA03796@xemacs.eng.sun.com>
References: <199701211520.HAA12194@newman>
	<199701220624.WAA03796@xemacs.eng.sun.com>
Errors-to: wmperry@aventail.com
Reply-to: wmperry@aventail.com
X-Face: O~Rn;(l][/-o1sALg4A@xpE:9-"'IR[%;,,!m7</SYF`{vYQ(&RI1&EiH[FvT;J}@f!4kfz
 x_!Y#=y{Uuj9GvUi=cPuajQ(Z42R[wE@{G,sn$qGr5g/wnb*"*ktI+,CD}1Z'wxrM2ag-r0p5I6\nA
 [WJopW_J.WY;

Martin Buchholz writes:
>>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
>
>William> popup menus with multi-byte chars in them are really
>William> broken. :) not that I have any clue how to fix this, but...
>
>My XEmacs has (translated) Japanese text in the menubar and popup
>menus, but then I'm also running in a Japanese locale.
>
>Here's what I think is happening:
>
>Since the menubar isn't an XEmacs buffer, the labels are displayed using
>toolkit mechanisms, which live in a locale-centric world, and so only text
>in the current locale can be displayed.
>
>For similar reasons, the frame title and icon name can only use characters
>in the locale of the window manager.

  Ack.  The problem I am seeing is on a japanese web page that has japanese
text as the members of an 'options' menu in a form.  I don't think there is
any way I can convert that to something the toolkit can understand, is
there?  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

-Bill P.

