Resource Names

Resource Names

Resource names are compiled into programs. Because of that, their encoding must be known independent of locale. Trying to add a level of indirection here results in a problem: you're always left with something compiled that can't be localized. Resource names therefore use the X Portable Character Set. The names may be anything; at least they'll mean something to the application author. (If the names were numbers, for example, they would be meaningless to everybody.)