Protocol extension for changing desktop name on the fly

[Peter Rosin]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:13:04PM +0100, Peter Estrand wrote:
> > 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.

Great.

> What other kind of string encodings are used in VNC?

None that I know of, but I meant in general. Since you didn't specify it,
I wanted to eliminate any new string encoding creeping in (like zero-
termination etc etc)

> 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...

The ClientCutText and ServerCutText messages are specified to be Latin-1.

I think I'd rather have some pseudo-encoding to make all strings UTF-8.

Cheers,
Peter