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29.0.50; pgtk: Gtk-WARNING with popup menu

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 53916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53916: 29.0.50; pgtk: Gtk-WARNING with popup menu
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 19:11:28 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, 53916 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:26:21 +0800
>> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Great, does anyone know what "%s" parameters to `add_to_log' are
>> > expected in?  UTF-8?
>> 
>> About 5 seconds after sending this, I realized that it accepts Lisp
>> objects and format control strings like `format'.
>
> Yes, the arguments are Lisp strings.
>
>> So hopefully that means it will be okay to print out unibyte strings via
>> that mechanism, since I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of what
>> text encodings various libraries using the GLib logging system subject
>> it to.
>
> Just use DECODE_SYSTEM, the encoding is already figured out for you.
>
> Please do NOT use the original unibyte strings, they are likely to
> display as gibberish in some cases.

Thanks.

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