Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> 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.

I see what you mean now. That ceased being a problem for me when
i stopped using woeful FOSS stuff and wrote my own. The larger
community still needs better libraries.

> 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.