[bt-devel] [Bibletime-translations] Looking for translations for the bibletime.desktop file

Eeli Kaikkonen eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi
Thu Nov 12 13:57:49 MST 2009


On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:37:12 +0200 (EET)
> Eeli Kaikkonen <eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
> > And if you edit it, make sure you use utf8 encoding in your editor. All
> > translators are welcome to send those short sentences here even without
> > attachment.
>
> Just bringing this back to the dev list.

Sorry :)

>
> My FreeBSD env favours iso-8859-1 over UTF-8 encodings, so I am just getting
> more up to speed on some of this stuff.
>

Indeed, your commit 1778 wasn't utf8 and doesn't actually fix anything.

> Having done some investigating of other internationalised .desktop files,
> many set
>
> Encoding=UTF-8
>
> Do you see some merit to setting that in our desktop file?


http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

It says the file is utf8 and doesn't say anything about Encoding= field.
Probably it's an old, depracated field.

  Yours,
	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)



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