Protocol extension for changing desktop name on the fly
Peter Åstrand
astrand "at" cendio.se
Mon Jan 14 07:50:01 2008
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:20:50AM -0000, James Weatherall wrote:
> > In practice desktop names are currently ASCII-only, but new standard RFB
> > protocol elements all use UTF-8 for string data. I'd recommend that
> > third-party encodings, etc also use UTF-8 for string data for
consistency.
>
> So, Peter, did you settle for ASCII-only or did you change to UTF-8?
>
> (I need to know so that my implementation is compatible)
Just like the current description of ServerInit, the description of
SetDesktopName currently doesn't specify any encoding. Also, I haven't
(yet) explicitly done anything UTF8:ish in the implementation.
I still believe that UTF8 is the way to go, though.
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