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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [otaylor@redhat.com: .desktop files and encodings]
From:       Lars Knoll <lars () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-03-01 9:45:05
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On Wednesday 28 February 2001 23:54, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

Just read the the mails that came to the xfree i18n list in the last weeks... 
Anyway, it seems like the people doing KDE translations do no have any 
problems using utf8. Fortunately.

Lars

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