[GRASS-dev] Customize menudata.ml

[Glynn Clements]

Luis Lisboa wrote:

> I want customize my DW-E menu and add a few new menus bla bla bla. I'm
> editting XML file but I'm having a problem. Special characters such as ñ á à
> etc are not recognized.
> Question: How can I parse this characters in the XML file?
> Note: I have set Spanish language and the GUI supports those characters.

What errors are you getting?

The menudata.xml file is treated as UTF-8; if you use e.g. ISO-8859-1,
you will get a parse error.

Provided that I use UTF-8, non-ASCII characters in menu labels or
description strings seem to work okay (using them in commands might be
a problem).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>