[Xcb] Developer mad at libx11-xcb

[Kris Maglione]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Barton C Massey wrote:
>Please help me understand the problem here; maybe we can
>help.  What exactly are we missing?

As far as I can tell, and the people in #xcb seemed to agree, 
there's no simple way to draw multi-byte strings in xcb. In 
particular, Xlib has a disaster of a system that it calls font 
sets, and the likes of X(mb|utf8)DrawString, which amalgamates 
multiple fonts to get the characters it needs.

>As far as I know, we don't do anything clever enough with
>property strings to mess up UTF-8.  Do you mean converting
>between UTF-8 in your app and wacky formats in the
>properties?

No, it's X11 that does things funny. When I use the 
Xutf8GetTextProperty or what have you, it gives me a UTF-8 
string, whether the property was a STRING, UTF8_STRING, TEXT, or 
whatever else. I don't even want to think of the lengths it goes 
to. I can probably get away with ignoring properties which 
aren't STRINGs or UTF8_STRINGs, but I fear that I'll get bitten 
when some Japanese or Arabic user ends up with COMPOUND_TEXT 
(which I have no desire to handle myself).

-- 
Kris Maglione

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