Re: UTF-8 editing problems with GEdit

From: d l (popgojp_at_yahoo.co.jp)
Date: 04/27/04

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    Is the xfce conf parser UTF aware? if not saving to UTF
    should break things. Check the encoding of menu.xml and
    save with same encoding as the original then.

    --- "Paul M. Bucalo" <linuxuser@pmbenterprises.com> $B$+$i(B
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    > 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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