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<title>D-Bus Specification</title>
- <releaseinfo>Version 0.21</releaseinfo>
+ <releaseinfo>Version 0.22</releaseinfo>
<date>(not yet released)</date>
<authorgroup>
<author>
</authorgroup>
<revhistory>
<revision>
- <revnumber>0.21</revnumber>
+ <revnumber>0.22</revnumber>
<date>not yet released (<ulink url='http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/log/doc/dbus-specification.xml'>commit log</ulink>)</date>
<authorinitials></authorinitials>
<revremark></revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
+ <revnumber>0.21</revnumber>
+ <date>2013-04-25</date>
+ <authorinitials>smcv</authorinitials>
+ <revremark>allow Unicode noncharacters in UTF-8 (Unicode
+ Corrigendum #9)</revremark>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
<revnumber>0.20</revnumber>
<date>22 February 2013</date>
<authorinitials>smcv, walters</authorinitials>
are basic types with a variable length. The value of any string-like
type is conceptually 0 or more Unicode codepoints encoded in UTF-8,
none of which may be U+0000. The UTF-8 text must be validated
- strictly: in particular, it must not contain overlong sequences,
- noncharacters such as U+FFFE, or codepoints above U+10FFFF.
+ strictly: in particular, it must not contain overlong sequences
+ or codepoints above U+10FFFF.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Since D-Bus Specification version 0.21, in accordance with Unicode
+ Corrigendum #9, the "noncharacters" U+FDD0..U+FDEF, U+nFFFE and
+ U+nFFFF are allowed in UTF-8 strings (but note that older versions of
+ D-Bus rejected these noncharacters).
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para>
The following table describes the keys that can be used to create
- a match rule:
- The following table summarizes the D-Bus types.
+ a match rule.
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