I've got gargabed help messages when I run xemacs -help
in LANG=ja on Solaris 2.6 SPARC.
XEmacs probably needs to convert its internal chracter
coding system into the particular coding system for
the current locale.
-kuro
$ xemacs -vanilla -help 2>&1 |more
XEmacs 21.2 "Demeter" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, Mule) of Mon May 17 1999 on
rio
XEmacs B$OBB!"BX
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B$=BB$lBB$KBB2CBB$(BB$FBB!"B
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