http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7951
Summary: Created .desktop files contain characters in wrong encoding Product: Wine Version: 0.9.32. Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: wine-setupapi AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: anpaza@mail.ru
The standard for .desktop files says that all strings (such as icon name) inside the .desktop file must be in the UTF-8 encoding. WINE does not re-encode the application name (from WANSI) which results in bad icon name if icon name contains national characters (such as Cyrillic in my case - the icon title is written to the .desktop file in Windows-1251 encoding while it should be translated to UTF-8 in order for GNOME/KDE to handle them correctly).