Re: window caption and utf

[Marko Macek <Marko Macek gmx net>]

Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> 
> Hi,

> New applications, however, want, should and have to use unicode for the window
> captions. Otherwise it's not possible to have for example norwegian
> applications together with some corean or japanese ones on the same screen.
> 
> I therefore suggest we add an additional _NET_WM_NAME property which is defined
> to be in utf8 or utf16 encoding (whatever you prefer, utf8 would be fine for
> me). This way old apps stay compatible with new window managers and new apps
> will work fine with old window managers.

Would it make sense to be autodectable based on format=8/16?

Do we need a short/icon name too? (_NET_WM_ICON_NAME)

Mark
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