[Spice-devel] [PATCH] client: support clipboard/selection-owner model

[Arnon Gilboa]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:16 +0200, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
>   
>>      utf8_atom = XInternAtom(x_display, "UTF8_STRING", False);
>> +
>> +    Platform::clipboard_formats[0].format = utf8_atom;
>> +    Platform::clipboard_formats[0].type =
>> Platform::CLIPBOARD_UTF8_TEXT;
>>     
>
> How common is UTF8_STRING support these days? Can we rely on all
> interesting apps supporting it, or should we also try to handle the
> older non-utf8 X text formats by doing the conversion ourselves?
>
>   
Although I haven't met an "interesting app" not supporting UTF8_STRING 
(can u find one?), we can support older text formats conversion 
(actually we did it before and removed it;). Is it interesting enough?