[FFmpeg-devel] Win UTF8 patch vs WinCE (Was Re: [PATCH] Check for the isatty function)

Karl Blomster thefluff
Fri Jul 24 19:31:37 CEST 2009


Martin Storsj? wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Martin Storsj? wrote:
> 
>> I tested this and found out that it's actually way more complicated than 
>> than I thought. I'll try to list all the major issues I ran in to:
>>
>> - CommandLineToArgvW doesn't exist on WinCE (neither on mingw32ce nor on 
>>   MSVC). I tried to hack together a seemingly compatible replacement, but 
>>   that's 90 lines extra cruft. (Attached for reference.) I also noticed 
>>   that this function isn't available on win9x, FYI.
> 
> Found another issue related to this: On WinCE, the command line given by 
> GetCommandLineW() doesn't contain the executable name, while it does on 
> desktop windows. To work around this, one would have to do something 
> similar to this patch, attached.
> 
> // Martin

How about just disabling UTF8 support on Windows OS's that obviously don't 
really want to support it, like WinCE and Win9x?

Regards,
Karl Blomster



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