--- validate.c.old	2006-11-07 18:26:17.000000000 +0100
+++ validate.c	2007-05-27 17:10:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -731,13 +731,15 @@
 				  "Encoding",
 				  NULL, &val))
     {
+     g_printerr(_("%s: Warning: Item \"Encoding\" is deprecated!\n"),
+                  filename);
       if (strcmp (val, "UTF-8") != 0 &&
 	  strcmp (val, "Legacy-Mixed") != 0)
 	print_fatal (filename, "unknown Encoding type \"%s\", should be one of \"UTF-8\", \"Legacy-Mixed\"\n", val);
     }
   else
     {
-      print_fatal (filename, "required key \"Encoding\" not found\n");
+      /*print_fatal (filename, "required key \"Encoding\" not found\n");*/
     }
 
   if (!gnome_desktop_file_get_raw (df, section,
@@ -939,6 +941,8 @@
 				  "Encoding",
 				  NULL, &val))
     {
+      g_printerr(_("%s: Warning: Item \"Encoding\" is deprecated!\n"),
+                  filename);
       if (strcmp (val, "UTF-8") != 0 &&
 	  strcmp (val, "Legacy-Mixed") != 0)
         {
@@ -947,12 +951,12 @@
           fix_encoding = TRUE;
         }
     }
-  else
+  /*else
     {
-      g_printerr (_("%s: missing encoding "),
+     g_printerr (_("%s: missing encoding "),
                   filename);
       fix_encoding = TRUE;
-    }
+    }*/
 
   if (fix_encoding)
     {