From: Dave Love Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:41:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Non-ASCII in menus. X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/1%29.2+1-2+rpi1~1^2~25272 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:///%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce8e27d528644e11f987f3d3ba9cc6adf293e4c5;p=emacs.git Non-ASCII in menus. --- 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: