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fall back to recognition via "magic detection".
</para>
<para>
- Desktop entry files are encoded as lines of 8-bit characters separated
- by LF characters. Case is significant everywhere in the file.
+ Desktop entry files are encoded in UTF-8. A file is interpreted as a
+ series of lines that are separated by linefeed characters. Case is
+ significant everywhere in the file.
</para>
<para>
Compliant implementations MUST not remove any fields from the file,