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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Charset of .desktop files
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-03-29 11:50:09
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:00:13PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 29 March 2002 11:44, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > Can I put non-ASCII symbols in a .desktop file?
> 
> Yes, using UTF-8.
> 
> > I'd like the GenericName
> > for Atlantik to be "Monopoly?-like board games" but I'm not sure how if I
> > can simply put in the symbol like this (see attached patch).
> 
> No you can't.
> Use "recode", or write a 2 liner Qt prog that does QString::fromLocal8Bit("thestring").utf8() :)

Or restart your vim 6 after adding 
set fileencodings=utf-8
to your ~/.vimrc

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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