COMPOUND_TEXT versus UTF8_STRING
Keith Packard
keithp at keithp.com
Wed Sep 22 14:09:52 PDT 2004
Around 22 o'clock on Sep 22, Roland Mainz wrote:
> This will likely require at least to depreciate some libX11 API, add new
> ones which accept UTF-8 and a bump of the major shared library version
> number of libX11... ;-(
No. Nothing needs to change in libX11 -- the EWMH are well supported in
existing toolkits and window managers. If you like, we could create a
separate EWMH helper library, but even that isn't strictly necessary. The
existing Xlib helper APIs are only complicated because of the need to
support COMPOUND_TEXT...
Adopting EWMH is a simple matter of rubber stamping an existing widely
deployed standard, no software need be harmed in the process.
-keith
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