Protocol extension for changing desktop name on the fly

[Peter Åstrand]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Peter Rosin wrote:

> > "A client which requests the DesktopName pseudo-encoding is declaring
that
> > it is capable of coping with a change of the desktop name. The server
> > changes the desktop name by sending a pseudo-rectangle with the
> > DesktopName pseudo-encoding in an update. The pseudo-rectangle's
> > x-position, y-position, width, and height must be zero. After the
> > rectangle header, a string with the new name follows. "
>
> There are more than one popular way to encode strings, which one have
> you selected? U32 name-length followed by U8-array name-string as in
> the ServerInitialisation message?

In VNC4-speak, I'm using InStream::readString. This is U32 name-length
plus U8 data.

What other kind of string encodings are used in VNC?

Btw, one thing that I miss somewhat is a character encoding definition.
Perhaps it's time to define that the desktop name should be encoded using
UTF-8...

Rgds,
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