Bug 24483

Summary:	xprop should display UTF8_STRING properties as text
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith>
Component:	App/xprop	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	git
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Alan Coopersmith 2009-10-12 13:26:40 UTC

Currently, xprop displays properties of type UTF8_STRING as a series of
hex bytes:

_NET_WM_ICON_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = 0x61, 0x6c, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x63, 0x40, 0x61, 0x6c, 0x66

If is_utf8_locale() is true, and the string can be validated as valid UTF-8,
it should be printed as a human-readable string.   This will probably require
adding a new property format letter to the set xprop accepts for -format.

Comment 1 Yang Zhao 2009-10-23 16:16:19 UTC

Added by eb64005382abf6262c913a46e6186e019a179d59

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2009-10-23 16:25:58 UTC

Thanks!

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