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Regarding COMPOUND_TEXT vs. UTF8_STRING, definitely others
have been where we are now before (googled for those two words):

Discussions:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Communication-Coding.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg03466.html
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2004-September/003444.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-September/003331.html

Here's a description of COMPOUND_TEXT as iso-2022 (ie. 8 and 16 bit
encodings of text)
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/1999-July/msg00110.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_2022

I think this is the email thread that started the whole
_NET_WM_NAME thing being added to the window manager spec:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/1999-July/msg00106.html

My take on COMPOUND_TEXT (keep in mind I'm not much familiar with
this stuff) is that if FLTK's mission is to only support UTF8
encoding, then we should probably only use UTF8_STRING with the
window manager. I think COMPOUND_TEXT is for (or includes)
other encodings we don't support, and was only used for old window
managers that didn't yet support UTF8 which are probably waning fast.


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