Desktop Specification 0.9.4 *final* draft ;)

[Richard Moore]

On Monday 14 July 2003 19:51, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:38:56PM +0000, Richard Moore wrote:
> > On Monday 14 July 2003 01:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Richard Moore wrote:
> > > > localestring	Are these always going to be UTF-8? Would it be worth
> > > > having a hook to allow support for other encodings to be added in
> > > > future?
> > >
> > > The encoding is determined by the Encoding= field, if it's
> > > Legacy-Mixed then the encoding of localestring is determined by the
> > > locale of the string (as given in the table in the spec), if it's
> > > UTF-8 then the file is all UTF-8.
> >
> > That's not what the 0.9.4 draft spec says, at the end of the 'Character
> > set encoding of the file' section it says 'The encoding for values of
> > type localestring is UTF-8.'
>
> The spec is confused then, I'm pretty sure.
>
> Heinrich maybe you could clarify this in your patch:
> "The encoding for values of type localestring is determined by the
> Encoding field."

That seems reasonable.

Rich.