Re: character encoding in .desktop files

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 03:16  PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> I think most of GNOME's .desktop files are now translated using
> xml-i18n-tools, which means they should come out as proper UTF-8 as
> long as all the .po files are converted to use UTF-8. I don't know
> who's working on making sure .po files get converted.

There are actually recent changes to xml-i18n-tools to use gettext to .po 
files to UTF-8 as it reads them, when appropriate. I don't think that 
feature has been in any xml-i18n-tools release yet.

    -- Darin