From 79dc1dfcc051ed4f0e97950bbd5cbbb5e85640e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:41:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Non-ASCII in menus. --- lispref/keymaps.texi | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lispref/keymaps.texi b/lispref/keymaps.texi index d3ab9c92bb3..fc5d007820d 100644 --- a/lispref/keymaps.texi +++ b/lispref/keymaps.texi @@ -1694,7 +1694,12 @@ looks like this: @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: -- 2.39.2