[PATCH:xwininfo 1/2] Handle non-latin-1 window names

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Jun 30 09:38:47 PDT 2010


Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:04:33 -0700
>>
>> Uses _NET_WM_NAME to get UTF-8 encoding, iconv to convert to current locale
>> Warns that COMPOUND_TEXT WM_NAMEs aren't supported if _NET_WM_NAME isn't set
>> Adds local atom caching code to dsimple.c and uses it in all three *.c
> 
> Sorry, but iconv isn't available everywhere; OpenBSD for example
> doesn't have it.

So OpenBSD doesn't meet the Unix98 baseline we've been stating for a few
years is the minimum requirement for X.Org?

It wouldn't be hard to add an autoconf check and just leave OpenBSD users
limited to ISO8859-1 window names, but I didn't think that would be needed.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System



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