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`Window.get_wm_name` does not handle Unicode values #103

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tomkcook opened this issue Feb 8, 2018 · 1 comment
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`Window.get_wm_name` does not handle Unicode values #103

tomkcook opened this issue Feb 8, 2018 · 1 comment
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@tomkcook tomkcook commented Feb 8, 2018

I'm using Python 3 and current PyPI version of Xlib.

When I call get_wm_name() on a window that has non-ASCII characters in the name, b'' is returned. I've traced this down as far as drawable.get_property and confirmed that the value returned from the request there is also b''.
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@benoit-pierre benoit-pierre commented Feb 9, 2018

get_wm_name defaults to using the STRING type. There are 3 string types: STRING, UTF8_STRING, and COMPOUND_TEXT. Depending on how the name was set, you could try:

window.get_full_text_property(Xatom.WM_NAME, display.get_atom('UTF8_STRING'))

This should return a proper Unicode string if the property was set with UTF8_STRING. xterm -title, for example, will use COMPOUND_TEXT, which is unsupported: you'll get the raw bytes, not a decoded Unicode string (more info here).
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