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+[Desktop Entry]
+Encoding=UTF-8
+MultipleArgs=false
+Terminal=true
+Exec=weechat-curses
+Icon=weechat
+Type=Application
+Categories=
+StartupNotify=false
+Name=Weechat
+GenericName=IRC Client
+