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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dde.n')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dde.n | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ asynchronous invocation. The command returns an error message if the script did not run, unless the \fB\-async\fR flag was used, in which case the command returns immediately with no error. .VS 8.6 -The \fB\-binary\fR option treats \fIdata\fR as binary data, otherwise an utf-8 -string is sent. Combining \fB-binary\fR with the result of -\fBencoding convertto\fR may be used to send data in arbitrary encodings. +Without the \fB\-binary\fR option all data will be sent in unicode. For +dde clients which don't implement the CF_UNICODE clipboard format, this +will automatically be translated to the system encoding. You can use +the \fB\-binary\fR option in combination with the result of +\fBencoding convertto\fR to send data in any other encoding. .VE 8.6 .TP -\fBdde poke ?\fB\-binary\fR? \fIservice topic item data\fR +\fBdde poke\fR ?\fB\-binary\fR? \fIservice topic item data\fR . \fBdde poke\fR passes the \fIdata\fR to the server indicated by \fIservice\fR using the \fItopic\fR and \fIitem\fR specified. Typically, @@ -98,8 +100,11 @@ on. The \fIitem\fR is also application specific and is often not used, but it must always be non-null. The \fIdata\fR field is given to the remote application. .VS 8.6 -The \fB\-binary\fR option treats \fIdata\fR as binary data, otherwise an utf-8 -string is sent. +Without the \fB\-binary\fR option all data will be sent in unicode. For +dde clients which don't implement the CF_UNICODE clipboard format, this +will automatically be translated to the system encoding. You can use +the \fB\-binary\fR option in combination with the result of +\fBencoding convertto\fR to send data in any other encoding. .VE 8.6 .TP \fBdde request\fR ?\fB\-binary\fR? \fIservice topic item\fR |