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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [otaylor@redhat.com: .desktop files and encodings]
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-02-28 19:48:32
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On Wednesday 28 February 2001 19:50, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2001 10:31, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Hi, Owen sent this patch for the Desktop Entry Spec to the xdg list.
> > I don't know enough to understand the ramifications of such a patch
> > for KDE.
> 
> I wouldn't call this a "standard" but rather "gnome design documentation".
> 
> I have no problem with adding workarounds for this stuff to get 
> interoperability but I don't think it belongs in a standard.

The non-utf8 bits ? Hmm, right, it's a bit useless to have that in the
standard, especially if gnome is going to move to UTF-8 as well.

Adding Encoding=UTF-8 to KDE's desktop files sounds like a good idea though.

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