The typography of the Desktop Entry Spec makes it ambiguous whether dots are allowed in key names (reading the markup indicates that they're not, but the character class is at the end of a sentence, so the full stop that ends the sentence looks as though it might be part of the character class).
I attach a patch that re-words the text so the character class is in the middle
of the sentence. Could someone review this and commit it if approved?
(Is CVS (ugh) still the canonical location for the desktop entry spec?
The patch is against CVS, since I couldn't find a svn or git repository
for it.)
Simon
? charclass.diff
Index: desktop-entry-spec.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/menus/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -r1.35 desktop-entry-spec.xml
--- desktop-entry-spec.xml 4 Mar 2008 22:50:48 -0000 1.35
+++ desktop-entry-spec.xml 9 Sep 2008 12:56:18 -0000
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@
<literal>=</literal> sign is the actual delimiter.
</para>
<para>
- Key names must contain only the characters
- <literal>A-Za-z0-9-</literal>.
+ Only the characters <literal>A-Za-z0-9-</literal> may be used in
+ key names.
</para>
<para>
As the case is significant, the keys <varname>Name</varname> and
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