desktop-entry-spec.xml patch

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Jul 11 01:02:51 EEST 2004


On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 00:49, Ray Strode wrote:
> 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

In that case, the quoted part from the proposed spec patch above (the
"+" lines) should be updated somehow.  It currently says "must contain
UTF-8 characters".





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