Re: proposal: extending .desktop files syntax to aid i18n

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru> writes: 
>  Is support for utf8 strings in .desktop files planned for gnome-1.4 or not?
> 

Don't know - we have the problem right now that you can't tell by
looking at a .desktop file whether it's old-style with native
encodings or new-style with UTF-8, which means we can't interoperate
with KDE, and this is basically our fault since the standard is UTF-8.

Havoc