Re: Small change for the desktop entry spec

2007-07-27 Thread Vincent Untz
Le vendredi 29 juin 2007, à 12:51 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit : On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 18:37 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Someone reported that in the current version of the spec, we say: Desktop entry files are encoded as lines of 8-bit characters separated by LF characters.

Re: Small change for the desktop entry spec

2007-06-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 18:37 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Someone reported that in the current version of the spec, we say: Desktop entry files are encoded as lines of 8-bit characters separated by LF characters. But UTF-8 characters can use several bytes for one character. We can

RE: Small change for the desktop entry spec

2007-06-29 Thread Bastian, Waldo
The point of that formulation was to make clear that you can parse a .desktop fils into individual lines, keys and value-blobs without concern for the actual encoding used. Back in the days .desktop files could use different encodings for different lines of the file, there was no single