From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040418 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: [warren@laptop warren]$ file /usr/share/applications/net-balsa.desktop /usr/share/applications/net-balsa.desktop: UTF-8 Unicode text /usr/share/applications/net-balsa.desktop Name[ja]=�Х륵 Balsa's .desktop file is encoded UTF-8, but it appears that multiple strings were converted improperly and appear as garbage. [ja] is one example above of 文字化け, but there appear to be several more. 文字化け = unintelligible sequence of characters Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): balsa-2.0.17-1
Doh, I thought our Bugzilla could handle unicode characters. I guess I was wrong. =)
Comment #1: Our bugzilla DOES handle Unicode just fine. Your browser must be borked. Here's proof (notice that the e-mail to eng-i18n-list is also encoded properly): æ¥æ¬èªã®ãã¹ã
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The upstream balsa should use intltool to handle .desktop file message.
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Filed. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142769
Balsa fixed and closed this issue in its CVS HEAD. So the necessary fix should happen with its next new release. FYI http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142769
I am guessing that we probably wont see this unless we upgrade to their 2.1.x development branch, which would also require us to include gmail in the distribution. Perhaps this would be best moved to Extras ASAP, that way we can take advantage of gpgme capability too. Opinions?
Fedora Core Test 2 includes the 2.2.x series. Suggest closing this on e as NEWRELEASE. As far as I know, Sylpheed still requires GPGME 0.3 whereas Balsa wants 0.9.