diff --git a/assistant.desktop b/assistant.desktop
index 971268d..ce7d337 100644
--- a/assistant.desktop
+++ b/assistant.desktop
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ Comment=Shows Qt4 documentation and examples
 Exec=assistant-qt4
 Icon=assistant
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Development;Documentation;
diff --git a/designer.desktop b/designer.desktop
index 514146e..d8c2f4d 100644
--- a/designer.desktop
+++ b/designer.desktop
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ Exec=designer-qt4
 Icon=designer
 MimeType=application/x-designer;
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Development;
diff --git a/linguist.desktop b/linguist.desktop
index a4efb84..713d711 100644
--- a/linguist.desktop
+++ b/linguist.desktop
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ Exec=linguist-qt4
 Icon=linguist
 MimeType=text/vnd.trolltech.linguist;application/x-linguist;
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Development;
diff --git a/qdbusviewer.desktop b/qdbusviewer.desktop
index 768c4b0..b22ac1d 100644
--- a/qdbusviewer.desktop
+++ b/qdbusviewer.desktop
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Comment=Debug D-Bus applications
 Exec=qdbusviewer
 Icon=qdbusviewer
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Development;Debugger;
 
diff --git a/qt.spec b/qt.spec
index 4f52e50..9ce906c 100644
--- a/qt.spec
+++ b/qt.spec
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Summary: Qt toolkit
 Name:    qt
 Epoch:   1
 Version: 4.8.4
-Release: 16%{?dist}
+Release: 17%{?dist}
 
 # See LGPL_EXCEPTIONS.txt, LICENSE.GPL3, respectively, for exception details
 License: (LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions) and ASL 2.0 and BSD and FTL and MIT
@@ -1182,6 +1182,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr 25 2013 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> - 4.8.4-17
+- Desktop file sanity, drop key "Encoding", it's deprecated
+
 * Fri Apr 19 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 4.8.4-16
 - update URL (#859286)
 - include qdbusviewer .desktop/icon
diff --git a/qtconfig.desktop b/qtconfig.desktop
index 29772fb..efc4d4a 100644
--- a/qtconfig.desktop
+++ b/qtconfig.desktop
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ Comment=Configure Qt4 behavior, styles, fonts
 Exec=qtconfig-qt4
 Icon=qt4-logo
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Settings;
diff --git a/qtdemo.desktop b/qtdemo.desktop
index ac31118..9bcbf1b 100644
--- a/qtdemo.desktop
+++ b/qtdemo.desktop
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ Comment=Show Qt4 demos and programming examples
 Exec=qtdemo-qt4
 Icon=qt4-logo
 Terminal=false
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Categories=Qt;Development;