"MacArthur, Ian (SELEX) (UK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> The patch below fixes window names in non-xft window managers.
> 
> 
> Is there some reason why a non-XFT WM shouldn't handle utf8 encoded
> strings?

You are right. This has probabely nothing to do with Xft at all.
But non-utf8 aware window managers seem to have a problem with 
XA_WM_NAME beeing set to an utf8 string.

> This patch just seems to discard the utf8 encoding and convert the
> string to "plain" ascii instead - but I can't believe that is the proper
> intent?

Actually it is the intent, but the more I think/google about it I'm 
no longer sure whether this is the right thing to do.
In what encoding do XA_STRING type things need to be provided according
to the X-standard?

Johannes

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