On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:02 PM Nyla Khalil <nylakha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have TigerVNC Server v1.11.90 Beta > (https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.11.90) and > Guacamole 1.3.0 running on my Linux system. I need to copy paste > non-Latin characters. > > TigerVNC client and Guacamole SSH connection handle Unicode characters > correctly. If I use Guacamole VNC connection with Clipboard Encoding > set to UTF-8, copy pasting Unicode characters results in > transformation issues (possibly UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1). I think this is > due to Guacamole's LibVNC library usage > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-1043). Is there a way > to fix this? > > Not without either a) support from LibVNC, or b) switching to a client library that does support it. > LibVNC/libvncserver 1.0.0 release will add support for UTF-8 clipboard > (https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/pull/468). If I build > Guacamole with the LibVNC UTF-8 changes, will it automagically work or > is there some integration needed on the Guacamole side? > > Hard to say - there may be some changes that have to be made in the Guacamole code keep it from trying to translate if the underlying library supports UTF-8, but I haven't looked at the code, so I'm not sure about that. > Guacamole Docs: > "As most VNC servers will not accept data in any other format, > Guacamole will translate between UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1 when exchanging > clipboard data with the VNC server, but this behavior can be > overridden with the clipboard-encoding parameter." > > Examples: > "£" pasted in TigerVNC client correctly pastes as "£" > "£" pasted in Guacamole VNC connection via sidebar menu incorrectly > pastes as "£" > "£" pasted in Guacamole SSH connection via sidebar menu correctly pastes > as "£" > > Seems like there may be some changes that need to be made. -Nick
