unicode window titles do not work on XP

[totaam]

Issue migrated from trac ticket # 526

component: platforms | priority: major | resolution: wontfix | keywords: win32

2014-03-04 05:47:07: totaam created the issue

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GTK requires all window titles to be sent as UTF-8, which we now do explicitly (see r5694), but even with the patch attached which uses user32.SetWindowTextW on the window handle to bypass GTK and set the window title using UTF-16, we still get gibberish in the title bar...

The patch also checks and the window does support unicode (isWindowUnicode()==1).

This can be tested with [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/tests/xpra/test_apps/test_window_title.py tests.xpra.test_apps.test_window_title]

[totaam]

2014-03-04 05:47:34: totaam uploaded file win32-utf16-title.patch (2.1 KiB)

tries to use SetWindowTextW to set the window title

[totaam]

2014-03-04 06:15:22: totaam uploaded file win32-utf16-title-MultiByteToWideChar.patch (2.9 KiB)

alternative patch using MultiByteToWideChar instead of encode to utf-16-le

[totaam]

2015-04-22 09:29:13: antoine changed status from new to closed

[totaam]

2015-04-22 09:29:13: antoine set resolution to wontfix

[totaam]

2015-04-22 09:29:13: antoine changed title from unicode window titles do not work on win32 to unicode window titles do not work on XP

[totaam]

2015-04-22 09:29:13: antoine commented

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Turns out that this is a limitation of XP, works fine with win7 (see #826).

So I don't think we can fix this.

[totaam]

2015-11-28 09:57:51: antoine edited the issue description