Re: "Encoding" key in the desktop entries

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Some desktop entries in core modules lack the required by standard [1]
> > "Encoding" key. The count:
> >       1 acme
> >      12 gedit
> >       1 gnome-applets
> >       1 gnome-media
> >       2 metacity
> >       8 nautilus
> >       1 procman
> > 
> > Another probably more serious problem is that current desktop code
> > apparently assumes UTF-8 for the ones without "Encoding", when again by
> > standard its supposed to assume Legacy-Mixed. 
> 
> Look again. The spec allows you to do basically anything you want for
> files without an encoding key. The right behavior is usually:

The spec also states that the Encoding field is required.  We should at
least be good citizens and include it.

Thanks,
-Jonathan