UTF-8 editing problems with GEdit

From: Paul M. Bucalo (linuxuser_at_pmbenterprises.com)
Date: 04/27/04

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:36:00 -0400

    I have been experiencing a problem with editing XML files using GEdit in
    FC1. I'm hoping someone will know what is happening and point me to the
    solution, or tell me what I need to do. I have done some research on
    this, but without knowing what is wrong, I haven't been successful in
    figuring this out...

    I am trying to edit XFce-4's menu file, 'menu.xml', using GEdit. The
    file has to be in UTF-8 code to be picked up by xfdesktop. If I run a
    menu generator, MenuMaker, and open it with GEdit and then open the
    "Save As" dialog box, I see that it displays the file as "UTF-8".
    However, once edited and saved, subsequent openings in GEdit display
    "Current Locale (UTF-8)" instead. Once the file has been saved after
    editing, the menu is often useless, thereafter.

    To be sure to remove the possibility of an error in xml coding as the
    problem, I copied and pasted a current menu branch to form a duplicate
    entry. After saved, the menu came up. I went back in and edited the
    duplicates to make them point to the RH-specific system utilities that
    aren't picked up by MenuMaker, saved, and now it won't come up. I
    checked them very carefully for errors. There's very little tag work
    involved. It doesn't look like that is the problem. The only way I have
    been able to restore the menu's function is to generate another one
    through MenuMaker.

    Locale is set as:

    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=

    I can't see where there is a problem here, but I really don't know.
    If anyone wants to 'menu.xml', I can send it to them privately. It may
    be a bit too hefty to post here. I still suspect that it is a
    system-wide issue or one with GEdit.

    Any ideas? Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Paul 

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