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

Ramiro Polla ramiro.polla
Sat Jul 18 20:29:32 CEST 2009


On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Karl Blomster<thefluff at uppcon.com> wrote:
> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Karl Blomster<thefluff at uppcon.com> wrote:
>>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Karl Blomster<thefluff at uppcon.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Karl Blomster<thefluff at uppcon.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
[...]
>>>> - Always get the Unicode command line and convert it to UTF8.
>>>
>>> By all means, go for this if you feel up to it. Personally I was too lazy
>>> to
>>> do it since I didn't really need it myself (I submit patches mostly to
>>> scratch my own itches) but it would be a nice improvement.
>>
>> Then assuming filenames that come through the command line are in
>> UTF-8, we could choose between:
>
> How were you going to make sure commandlines are received as UTF8? Force the
> user to use the MinGW shell instead of cmd.exe?

No, by using GetCommandLineW() and converting UTF-16->UTF-8.

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Ramiro Polla



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