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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