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Re: X server: strange atoms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 19 13:02:17 1990
To: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-x11r4@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 18 Dec 90 11:55:00 -0500.
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 90 13:01:46 EST
From: Ralph Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
The last 5 atom names are unreasonable; something is obviously confused.
Sorry, John; I mis-lead you. My mistake.
These are all font property values. The protocol encoding of a
font property allows only 32 bits, so the XLFD (see, e.g. Scheifler&
Gettys 2nd ed pp 569) specifies that longer values, and in particular
all string values, are encoded as atoms. That's what you're seeing,
so it's not a bug. (Unlike both your and my first impressions :-)
