Description of problem: When using the script on non english UTF-8 encoded locales, script incorrectly handles encoding/decoding of unicode strings as passed by the xdg python module. I already notified the issue to the script project: https://code.google.com/p/fluxbox-xdg-menu/issues/detail?id=4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Included script as in last fluxbox pkg version (fluxbox-1.3.2-5.fc18.i686), which is google.code svn rev13. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Execute fluxbox-xdg-menu on non english UTF-8 locale (for example, de_DE) 2. 3. Actual results: Exception raised Expected results: A pretty and newly populated fluxbox menu description file Additional info: Patch already included in the original issue, but also attached here, just in case.
Created attachment 706883 [details] Correction of the script utf8 handling
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