Re: X11 Selections

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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