Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY
- From: Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov iki fi>
- To: wm-spec-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:07:42 +0000 (UTC)
On 2007-10-19, Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au> wrote:
> One advantage of unicode encoding is that every character has the
> same meaning independant of any tag things. That makes it easy to
> cut and paste multilingual text between applications without any
> out-of-band communication of encoding tags. This statelessness
> is the most worthwhile advantage IMO. UTF-8 could be considered
> a common inter-app encoding protocol, and apps can use whatever
> encoding they want internally.
That's up to for individual protocols to specify, or (preferrably)
not specify. A single protocol is in any case easier to ugprade to
a better encoding than a global monoculture. Applications hardly
can use whatever encoding they want to use internally if libraries
force a monoculture. The best approach is abstraction, an encoding
blackbox, but such a fundamental tenet of good software design
tends to not be appreciated these days, because any possibility for
alternatives is a big no-no. Megalomaniac rigid and bureaucratic
structures are in.
--
Tuomo
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