Bug#699746: x11-utils: xprop assumes that WM_ICON_NAME and WM_NAME are encoded in ISO-8859-1
Package: x11-utils
Version: 7.7~1
Severity: normal
xprop assumes that WM_ICON_NAME and WM_NAME are encoded in ISO-8859-1.
For instance, when running
/usr/bin/xterm -e 'printf "\e]1;my_icon€\x07\e]2;my_title€\x07"; sleep 999'
under UTF-8 locales, I get:
[...]
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8"
[...]
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "/usr/bin/xterm", "-e", "printf \"\\e]1;my_icon\342\202\254\\x07\\e]2;my_title\342\202\254\\x07\"; sleep 999" }
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "my_iconâ\302\202¬"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "my_titleâ\302\202¬"
This can be regarded as correct for WM_COMMAND (the string is just
output undecoded), but not for WM_ICON_NAME and WM_NAME (the "â" and
"¬" characters are meaningless.
The euro character is displayed correctly by the window manager (fvwm).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages x11-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7.1
ii libfontenc1 1:1.1.1-1
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 8.0.5-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.10-2
ii libxcb-shape0 1.8.1-2
ii libxcb1 1.8.1-2
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.3-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxft2 2.3.1-1
ii libxi6 2:1.6.1-1
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.1-1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.2-2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.3-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.1-1
ii libxv1 2:1.0.7-1
ii libxxf86dga1 2:1.1.3-2
ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.2-1
x11-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages x11-utils suggests:
ii mesa-utils 8.0.1-2+b3
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