Encoding issue with xfdesktop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 10/30/2006 1:48 PM, Maximilian Schleiss wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>> Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
>>
>>   
>>> 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.
>>>     
>> 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.
>>   
> 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

Well, I have no idea what the problem could be, then...

	-brian

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