Re: about .desktop translation - UTF-8 or not?

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa gmx net>]

Wang Jian <lark@linux.net.cn> writes:

> Is there any rules for encoding of translation of .desktop?
> Should UTF-8 be used or native encoding be used?

These days it's a waste of energy to edit .desktop files at all; try to
make sure the package will use xml-i18n-tools resp. intltool (?).  Then
.desktop entries will end up in the PO files and you can translate them
as "normal" messages.

File a bug report, if the package doesn't use xml-i18n-tools/intltool.

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