desktop-entry-spec.xml patch

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Sun Jul 11 00:49:35 EEST 2004


On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 21:36 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 02:21, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 
> > +     The difference between string and localestring is that the value
> > +     for a string key must contain only ASCII characters while the
> > +     value of a localestring key must contain UTF-8 characters.
> 
> Reflecting this in the names would make it more obvious, eg.
> asciistring/utf8string instead of string/localestring.
Note that localestrings aren't necessarily UTF-8 in legacy desktop
files. See:

http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4/apd.html

--Ray Strode





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