It seems to me that the problem is with print representations of non-
ascii strings. That would be a pure rep problem, nothing to do with X
property handling or even Sawfish. It is just that print
representations don't read back right. Try to eval a non-ascii string
in rep and see how the printed return value looks. Note that princ or
format %s of the string works but format %S does not. Setting
print-escape to nil would seem to help, but the string escaping should
really be fixed.
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Timo Korvola <URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>