Re: UTF-8 ICCCM properties

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:03:59AM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> What about the window manager property types
> 
>   WM_CLIENT_MACHINE
>   WM_ICON_NAME
>   WM_NAME
> 
> which are all specified in the ICCCM as type TEXT. If we exclude
> UTF8_STRING from being used where a type TEXT is specified, we will have
> no portable way of using Unicode in windows titles and icon names.
<...>
> The only alternatives I could think of are all a bit ugly, such as
> adding
> 
>   WM_CLIENT_MACHINE_UTF8
>   WM_ICON_NAME_UTF8
>   WM_NAME_UTF8
> 
> all of type UTF8_STRING.

Note that freedesktop.org WM spec already defines

  _NET_WM_ICON_NAME
  _NET_WM_NAME

both of type UTF8_STRING, to be used in preference to WM_ICON_NAME and
WM_NAME.

  http://freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec/1.3/ar01s05.html

Marius Gedminas
-- 
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of
the group divided by the number of people in the group.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQFAYCKfkVdEXeem148RAl0kAJ0cSbGzL6/XE0yTnUmjzJTT/iGGfQCfRHKV
EkVN0Z0YjS+lJoB7oWSU3bc=
=+H8c
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----