[Python-modules-team] Bug#611923: xdg.DesktopEntry & unicode

[Thomas Kluyver]

I'm just triaging bugs for PyXDG. It seems that getName() returns a
unicode string suitable for the current locale. I'd consider that the
expected behaviour. I believe modern GUI toolkits work with unicode
(I'm familiar with Qt, which certainly does).

Do you think that it should return an 8-bit string in a
locale-dependent encoding? That seems a step backwards to me, but I'd
be interested to hear your thoughts if that is your position.
Otherwise, I think we can close this issue.

Thanks