Re: [rox-devel] Encoding uri's in drag and drop

[Andrew F. <an...@bl...>]

In list.comp.rox-devel, Stephen wrote:
> 
> I'm not too familiar with the details of UTF-8.  It looks like some
> characters are encoded as 2 byte sequences.

Yep, anything which would be top-bit set in IS-8859-1, for example, will
be encoded as two bytes.

> Is it guarrenteed that neither of the bytes will be zero?

That I don't know off the top of my head.

One thing which I've just realised would be cool is the ability for the
filer to handle drag & dropped links from Mozilla (or Firebird in this
case) and then download the link (probably by spawning wget, maybe with
a pretty progress window (perhaps even the one from Zero-Install), maybe
popup a savebox based on `basename $URL` too).

The error you get at the moment is:

    "Sorry - I require a target type of text/uri-list or
     XdndDirectSave0"

If I had a spare five minutes... any takers?

Cheers,

Andrew

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