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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Charset of .desktop files
From:       Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-03-29 12:55:41
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On Friday 29 March 2002 12:50, Thomas Zander wrote:
> 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
Or say kate in the filedialog to save the file as utf8

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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann@kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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