[cairo] [PATCH] Enable links to image files in SVG backend

[Alexander Shulgin]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 16:49, Alexander Shulgin <alex.shulgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 15:40, Emmanuel Pacaud
> <emmanuel.pacaud at lapp.in2p3.fr> wrote:
>> Le vendredi 15 janvier 2010 à 12:23 +0100, Alexander Shulgin a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 21:15, Arjen Nienhuis <a.g.nienhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>  cairo_surface_set_mime_data (surface, "x-data/filename",
>>> >>                               "/path/to/executable.jpg", strlen("..."),
>>> >>                               NULL, NULL);
>>> >>
>>> >> Ideas?
>>> >> -ickle
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I like it. But it could be a url, not just a file path.
>>>
>>> Attached is a patch which introduces a new mime type "text/x-uri"[1]
>>> and uses this data in the SVG backend to replace image data with just
>>> a link[2] to the file.
>>>
>>> Attention paid to special characters which may occur in the mime data,
>>> like ampersand and double quote.
>>
>> I also like the idea of using mime data as link to files. but your
>> implementation seems to only handle ascii uris. UTF8 would be better.
>
> Actually it works correctly with UTF-8 and I've tested it.
>
> What makes you think it wont work?

Oh, I've got it -- you must be referring to these %XX sequences.  OK,
it must be easy to extend the encoding function to handle this.

What worked for me is plain UTF-8 filenames (Russian text) in the SVG
file on Ubuntu 9.10 with Inkscape and rsvg-view.

--
Alex