X11 Selections

Kensuke Matsuzaki zakki@peppermint.jp
Sun Jan 4 14:48:00 GMT 2004


Alexander,

> > and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the desired format.
> 
> Which conversions are these? Can they be done by other libraries or by using
> connection idependent code from libX11 (which could be staticly linked)

Conversion text encoding between compound text, UTF-8, Unicode and
locale encoding. lib/X11/lc*.c contain those code. Maybe some part of
those conversion can be done by iconv. But as far as I know, gnu
libiconv doesn't supprot compound text.

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Kensuke Matsuzaki
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