This was discussed some time ago, when the DesktopName pseudo encoding was added. From http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.vnc.user/28362/focus=28392:
>In practice desktop names are currently ASCII-only, but new standard RFB >protocol elements all use UTF-8 for string data. I'd recommend that >third-party encodings, etc also use UTF-8 for string data for >consistency. > >Cheers, > >-- >Wez @ RealVNC Ltd If I interpret Wez correctly, "new standard RFB protocol" means RFB 4.0. As far as I know, this specification is not yet available, though. UTF-8 support would certainly be nice to have, but just switching to UTF-8 over VNC would break compatibility with older implementations. However, I guess a simple negotiation could be used, to agree on UTF-8 for all strings that are currently defined as Latin1. Best regards, Peter Estrand On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > Any plans? > > > Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center-san wrote (01/14/09 06:18 PM): >> Hi, >> >> I downloaded http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf >> >> 6.4.6 ClientCutText >> The client has new ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) text in its cut buffer. Ends of lines >> are repre- >> sented by the linefeed / newline character (value 10) alone. No carriage-return >> (value >> 13) is needed. There is currently no way to transfer text outside the Latin-1 >> character >> set. >> >> >> However many desktop applications(e.g. GTK) can use the freedesktop specification and we can copy & paste multi-byte chars(UTF-8 and the current >> encodings.). >> http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt >> >> Are there any plans to update the RFB specification for UTF-8 multi-byte chars? >> I think working with UTF-8 can support lots of languages. >> I'd like to think if an application sends UTF-8 strings, it doesn't break the RFB specification. >> If UTF-8 is ok with UTF_8 atom, we also can support none UTF-8 users to convert to the current encoding with iconv. >> >> Thanks, >> fujiwara > --- Peter Estrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio AB http://www.cendio.com Wallenbergs gata 4 583 30 Linkvping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
