Re: character encoding in .desktop files
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>
- Cc: gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: character encoding in .desktop files
- Date: 24 Aug 2001 17:26:54 -0400
Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:
> How can we change .desktop files to use UTF-8 encoding? What encoding
> do they currently use? What compatibility concerns will there be if we
> change the encoding between GNOME 1 and GNOME 2?
The desktop entry spec (www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec)
says that the first key should be:
Encoding: Legacy-Mixed
or:
Encoding: UTF-8
A quite accurate way of autodetecting for legacty desktop files that
don't comply with this is to read the entire desktop file into memory
and validate it as UTF-8. If it is all valid UTF-8, then it is almost
certainly a UTF-8 desktop file.
My plan of attack would be:
- Make xml-i18n-tools write out the encoding lines.
- Use UTF-8 desktop files for GNOME 2, since the standard only
requires that implementations support UTF-8.
- Add code for reading Legacy-Mixed desktop files to GNOME 2,
for desktop entries we don't distribute.
- Patch libgnome1 to handle UTF-8 desktop files as well as possible ...
which probably means "properly on systems that have reasonable
iconv and nl_langinfo, no translations for other systems".
I don't think people will generally be using a gnome1 panel or
nautilus with gnome2 apps anyways.
Regards,
Owen
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