Encoding issue with xfdesktop

Maximilian Schleiss maxschleiss at bluewin.ch
Mon Oct 30 20:43:24 CET 2006


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> On 10/30/2006 10:17 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
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>> Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
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>>> Not really; probably xfdesktop's fr.po file is broken in some way.
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>> Guess you're right about this. I set my environment variables from fr_FR 
>> to de_DE... and all of a sudden, everything displays correctly.
>>
>> The question is: how could I possibly "repair" the broken fr.po file? It 
>> displays OK in Vim as well as POEdit.
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> My guess would be the .po file is in one encoding, while claiming to be
> in another.  Try contacting the maintainer of the translation?  Should
> be listed in the .po file, or maybe somewhere on http://i18n.xfce.org/.
>
> 	-brian
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Hi,

xfdesktop just shows the icon but the name comes from thunar's fr.po 
file and that is where it is strange because you wrote that it displays 
correctly in thunar. It does work here.

Max



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