locale specific for .desktop

[Thiago Macieira]

Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>2007/10/9, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center <Takao.Fujiwara at sun.com>:
>> I think users want to use their icons and it depends on each user
>> whether they use the simple icon names or not. I'ld like to know how
>> to conver the user's behaviors in the specification but not the each
>> case. Or do you mean we can avoid this case in each implementation,
>> e.g. launching a dialog?
>
>Use the UTF-encoded name and recode it to filesystem encoding when
>searching for the file? Different filesystem can use different
>encodings for file names across one system.

Sorry, but that  breaks if the locale somehow changes.

The solution I see to this is to make the UTF-8 encoding valid only for 
the text entries in the Desktop file. All file paths (as well as possibly 
commands) would be 8-bit encoded. That matches the file URI spec. One 
could want to pass binary data to a command, for instance.

I will add, though, that this solution I presented above will very likely 
break in KDE and we will probably not follow it.

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