Re: tmm.el: non-ASCII characters with locale-coding-system

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

On April 17, 2008 at 1:15AM +0900,
tats (at vega.ocn.ne.jp) wrote:

> > The patch is created by Tetsuo Tsukamoto (czkmt at remus.dti.ne.jp)
> > at http://mail.ring.gr.jp/skk/200803/msg00009.html to prevent a
> > problem of displaying Japanese characters with tmm.el reported
> > by Noritada Kobayashi at Debian BTS http://bugs.debian.org/470646.
[...]
> Hmm, the encoding scheme is decided as follows, quoting from
> skk-e21.el:
> 
> | (defvar skk-e21-coding-system (cond
> |                                ((memq window-system '(w32 nil))
> |                                 nil)
> |                                ((and (boundp 'mac-carbon-version-string)
> |                                      window-system
> |                                      (find-coding-system 'utf-8))
> |                                 'utf-8)
> |                                (t
> |                                 locale-coding-system)))
> 
> Should it be set to 'utf-8?  What's the correct way to handle a
> non-ASCII character of a menu item?

Wow, I set skk-e21-coding-system to nil, and then the problem has
gone away.  The SKK Japanese menu item can be displayed with tmm.el
and also with the menu bar.

Tetsuo, is locale-coding-system really needed?  If not, please set
skk-e21-coding-system to nil by default.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita