Clipboard/Selection Target Types

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Jan 2 19:12:42 EET 2004


Around 16 o'clock on Jan 2, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>  How about "text/html;charset=utf-8" ? http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2854.html , 
> grep it for 'charset'. IIRC I read in some RFC that all 'text/something' 
> types can have 'charset'.

Is there anyone who can come up with a compelling reason to permit 
non-UTF-8 encodings for this target?  I really can't see a reason to 
permit anything else, and have a personal agenda to wipe out alternate 
Unicode encodings (UTF-16 included).  UTF-8 is both necessary and 
sufficient for this job.

-keith





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