Help with desktop file

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Nov 4 08:35:07 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:00 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm working on packaging ksynaptics 0.2.3 and I'm getting the following
> error from desktop-file-install:
> 
> /export/tmp/rpm/ksynaptics-0.2.3-1-root-orion/usr/share/applications/fedora-ksynaptics.desktop:
> error: invalid characters in value of key "Keywords[sr]", keys of type
> string may contain ASCII characters except control characters
> 
> Now, the desktop file claims to be in UTF-8 but I don't know how to
> verify it's correctness.  Help please!

It looks like correct UTF-8 but that won't help; like the message says,
desktop-file-utils insists on ASCII for "Keywords".
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/172423




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