UTF-8 supports for copy & paste

[Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center]

Any plans?


Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center-san wrote (01/14/09 06:18 PM):
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf
> 
> 6.4.6 ClientCutText
> The client has new ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) text in its cut buffer. Ends of lines
> are repre-
> sented by the linefeed / newline character (value 10) alone. No carriage-return
> (value
> 13) is needed. There is currently no way to transfer text outside the Latin-1
> character
> set.
> 
> 
> However many desktop applications(e.g. GTK) can use the freedesktop specification and we can copy & paste multi-byte chars(UTF-8 and the current
> encodings.).
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt
> 
> Are there any plans to update the RFB specification for UTF-8 multi-byte chars?
> I think working with UTF-8 can support lots of languages.
> I'd like to think if an application sends UTF-8 strings, it doesn't break the RFB specification.
> If UTF-8 is ok with UTF_8 atom, we also can support none UTF-8 users to convert to the current encoding with iconv.
> 
> Thanks,
> fujiwara
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