Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: doug@genmri.UUCP (Doug Becker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XA_STRING Message-ID: <9104232317.AA16301@genmri.sane.COM> Date: 23 Apr 91 23:17:17 GMT References: Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 Does this imply that the encoding is ASCII or is this defined at all? Quoting from the ICCCM, section 2.7.1: STRING as a type or a target specifies the ISO Latin-1 character set plus the "control" characters TAB (octal 11) and NEWLINE (octal 12). The spacing interpretation of TAB is context dependent. Other ASCII control characters are explicitly not included in STRING at the present time. I think the answer to your question is no, the encoding is not necessarily ASCII, although it's a pretty safe bet that it's ISO Latin-1 (plus TAB and NEWLINE), if most applications obey the conventions. -- Doug Becker doug@nmri.ge.com crdgw1!sane!doug