Update to Fedora 42 broke ding

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Hello,

After upgrading Fedora from 41 to 42 ding 1.9 is not working anymore. Terminal shows Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/usr/bin/ding": invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

Any idea how to fix this?

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It seems that ding is a script and that that script is not a valid dnf-8 file.
What does file /usr/bin/ding report?

If it is a python script then you need a version that has fixed the non-utf8 encoding issue.

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desktop-file-install \
    --dir="${HOME}/.local/share/applications" \
    --set-key="Exec" \
    --set-value="wish -encoding iso8859-1 $(type -P ding)" \
    /usr/share/applications/ding.desktop
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/usr/bin/ding: POSIX shell script, ISO-8859 text executable
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This works, thanks.

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