X11 Selections
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Jan 4 21:11:00 GMT 2004
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
> 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.
I think a lot of those functions might be connection independent. I was
looking at them last night and they do a lot of processing within Xlib,
but they don't make calls to the server. Thus, they should not need a
connection.
Harold
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