Encoding issue with xfdesktop

[Maximilian Schleiss]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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> Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
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>> Does 'file' actually validate the utf8?  I doubt it.  It probably just
>> reads the first couple hundred bytes and guesses based on that.  Maybe
>> try using iconv to convert it from utf8 to something else to see if it
>> throws any 'bad utf8' errors?  Can't try it myself atm.
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> I think gedit, for example, would complain if the file was not in UTF8.
> And the strings that breaks in xfdesktop/thunar show fine in gedit.
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The application used to translate the files for Xfce is POedit and it 
does not complain about anything. The "file" command issues what Olivier 
just wrote:

file ../xfce/thunar/trunk/po/fr.po
../xfce/thunar/trunk/po/fr.po: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very 
long lines

> HTH
> Olivier.
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Greets,
Max