Adding the % character in there is probably not a big deal; is there any software in the world that actually validates trashinfo files? Additionally, the current trash spec only says "The format of this file is similar to the format of a desktop entry file", so we can make a note of it being supported if changing the desktop entry spec isn't an option.
J. Leclanche On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, David Faure <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 15 April 2013 10:17:14 Jerome Leclanche wrote: > > Do the keys accept %? uri-encoding them would be the obvious solution > here. > > Yes, it would have been, but this isn't a supported character... > see last section of > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s02.html > > IMHO we could also add more allowed characters to the spec, but experience > tells me > that trying to get stuff into the desktop entry spec is pretty hard. Maybe > at the next freedesktop > meeting, when we have more people involved with that... > > (KDE supports any character in there, and uses '\' for escaping, and even > supports \x2d escaping). > > -- > David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr > Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 > >
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