[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Support for UTF8 filenames on Windows

[Ramiro Polla]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Ramiro Polla<ramiro.polla at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Karl Blomster<thefluff at uppcon.com> wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
[...]
>>> But I'm still not really happy about having to choose at compile-time.
>>> Is there no way the user could specify it at run-time?
>>
>> You could add an enable_win_utf8 parameter to av_open_input_file I guess but
>> that would be a really ugly thing to have in the API and I doubt it'd be
>> OK'd. This patch only changes the API, not the commandline interfaces and
>> whatnot, so the only users of it would be people who use the ffmpeg API, and
>> those people presumably compile ffmpeg themselves anyway and would know if
>> they want UTF-8 support or not.
>
> I'm thinking of maybe adding a field to URLContext to specify
> win32_utf8, or adding URL_WIN32_UTF8 to flags. Does anyone have
> other/better suggestions to let the user choose between the system
> codepage or utf8 files on Windows at runtime?

I could also use an environment variable. Any comments on any of the
three approaches?
1. add a boolean field to URLContext;
2. add a flag to URLContext.flags;
3. add an environment variable.

Ramiro Polla