On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:22:05AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Can we please try to find some middle ground here. Is this text > acceptable to everyone:
+1, sounds fine for me. > > String Encodings > ================ > > The encoding used for strings in the protocol has historically often > been unspecified, or has changed between versions of the protocol. As a > result, there are a lot of implementations which use different, > incompatible encodings. Commonly those encodings have been ISO 8859-1 > (also known as Latin-1) or Windows code pages. > > It is strongly recommended that new implementations use the UTF-8 > encoding for these strings. This allows full unicode support, yet > retains good compatibility with older RFB implementations. > > New protocol additions that do not have a legacy problem should > mandate the UTF-8 encoding to provide full character support and to > avoid any issues with ambiguity. > > All clients and servers should be prepared to receive invalid UTF-8 > sequences at all times. These can occur as a result of historical > ambiguity or because of bugs. Neither case should result in lost > protocol synchronization. > > Handling an invalid UTF-8 sequence is largely dependent on the role > that string plays. Modifying the string should only be done when the > string is only used in the user interface. It should be obvious in that > case that the string has been modified, e.g. by appending a notice to > the string. > > -- > Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology > System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 > Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ tigervnc-rfbproto mailing list tigervnc-rfbproto@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-rfbproto
