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.
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