sawfish Version 0.36-4 for example .. /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/sawfish-0.36/capplet/move-properties.desktop Comment[de]=Verschieben und Ver^[)Bdndern der Gr^[$)Bv_e konfigurieren instead of Comment[de]=Verschieben und Verdndern der Grv_e konfigurieren
looking at the cvs versions of these .desktop files (in GNOME CVS) it looks as though these have two different types of encodings... looking into it to see if it cannot be fixed quickly.
should be ok in latest build