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-rw-r--r--desktop-entry/ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/desktop-entry/ChangeLog b/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
index 256b668..ab7f74c 100644
--- a/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
+++ b/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-07-27 Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
+
+ * desktop-entry-spec.xml: don't say that the files are encoded as
+ lines of 8-bit characters, which is wrong for UTF-8. Use something a
+ bit better proposed by Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
+ Bug #11417.
+
2007-05-30 Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
* desktop-entry-spec.xml: s/DESKTOP_LAUNCH_ID/DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID/
diff --git a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
index 4b52d19..02130a9 100644
--- a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
+++ b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@
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,