On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:46 +0200 Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > RealVNC didn't recommend that the clipboard text in the *CutText messages > and the string in the ServerInit message should be UTF-8, did they? > Probably not. And to make things more interesting, older versions of the spec stated that the clipboard should be ASCII. It was extended to latin1 in 3.8, but I'm not sure any server or client properly handles backwards compatibility here. Anyway, I think we should ignore the clipboard for now. It needs a major upgrade anyway to support non-text data so I don't think we should think about it at all in this discussion. > I have no trouble having the string in the new DesktopName pseudo-encoding > always be UTF-8. It's all those other strings that currently is ASCII > only (or Latin-1 in the case of *CutText) if you want it to work properly. I think it can be worth the hassle of stating that ServerInit should be UTF-8. There will be some interoperability fallout, but the current implementations aren't properly interoperable as is so I think it's worth it for the long term gains. The things currently defined as ASCII are the version string and the error messages. I see no need to upgrade either of those to UTF-8. I don't support dropping connections on malformed UTF-8. There is no problem determining where the string ends, so there is no reason to terminate the connection. Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com
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