Re: 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 11:32:00 -0400

    On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:13, d l wrote:
    > 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.

    Thanks for responding, d l...

    I believe I figured out the problem, but first to answer your
    question...

    XFce requires UTF-8 coding to work, so that is a given in that
    'menu.xml' must be UTF-8 encoded, through and through. It apparently has
    no tolerance for bad coding. :0)

    It occurred to me just a few minutes ago that I might have broken up the
    coding in some way that wasn't obvious to me before. I went back and
    experimented with some more editing. I believe the problem was the use
    one or more illegal character entries (like adding "&" to a title) and
    that was causing it to fail. I seem to recall that you need to precede
    each of these with an "\" to keep it from being interpreted, just like
    at a BASH console. My current edited menu is working because it doesn't
    have any illegal entries now. I will play with it later on to see if I
    am correct, but I think it's been all my fault all along.

    Ignorance is never bliss. :0(

    Thanks for you help, anyway.

    Paul

    >
    > --- "Paul M. Bucalo" <linuxuser@pmbenterprises.com> ã‹ã‚‰
    > ã®ãƒ¡ãƒƒã‚»ãƒ¼ã‚¸ï¼š
    > > 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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