Encoding issue with xfdesktop

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Oct 30 19:07:14 CET 2006


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On 10/30/2006 9:37 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't normally crosspost, but I've also sent a message about this to
> xfce-i18n, since I guess people on that list will be more concerned about this
> specific problems than the average ASCII guy:oD
> 
> I've just built 4.3.99.1 from source on Slackware 11.0. My system-wide LANG is
> fr_FR at euro, since many apps still have issues with UTF-8.
> 
> French messages, special characters and accents... are displayed OK in Thunar.
> On the desktop, on the other hand, things don't look so well. Here's a
> screenshot to get an idea:
> 
> http://www.kikinovak.net/encoding.png
> 
> I *think* it's xfdesktop expecting my system to be utf-8 instead of latin1. But
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Any suggestions about what to do now?

Not really; probably xfdesktop's fr.po file is broken in some way.

	-brian

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