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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 22:54:19
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On Wednesday 28 February 2001 22:19, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 22 o'clock on Feb 28, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > 
> > > To conclude, I think that we can add Encoding=UTF-8 in KDE to help
> > > with encoding-determination, but this whole encoding mess might not be
> > > a good idea for the SPEC, especially since we all know that the future
> > > is UTF-8.
> > I'd agree. 
> 
> You guys clearly haven't been involved in the XFree86 i18n wars.  The JIS 
> users will resist assimilation for as long as possible...

Hmm, the fact that a desktop files uses UTF-8 doesn't mean that
the user has to enter anything in UTF-8 himself.
Translators have proper tools for that (kbabel), and the user sees
the string in his language (obviously :) - I mean, even if he doesn't
have UTF-8 fonts.

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