[FFmpeg-devel] Cyrillic devices name support in libavdevice/dshow
Ivan Uskov
ivan.uskov at nablet.com
Wed Dec 16 22:10:42 CET 2015
Hello All,
Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 11:36:17 PM, you wrote:
IU> Hello Derek,
IU> Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 8:24:33 PM, you wrote:
DB>> On 12/16/2015 4:29 PM, Roger Pack wrote:
>>> Still mulling over why this would be needed...hm....
DB>> It makes sense that CP_OEMCP is needed for device names, in my mind,
DB>> after reading https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/108450 - however,
DB>> I don't think changing the generic functions in cmdutils.c is correct
DB>> here.
IU> The actual implementation of these functions for Windows platform looks buggy.
IU> Are will work right only for ASCII characters subset.
IU> It is hard to imagine what the reason was to use CP_UTF8 in windows-related code.
IU> Windows never use UTF8 in command line and in other places here only 8 bit
IU> OEM code pages or 16 bit unicode are possible.
IU> So using CP_OEMCP looks much more appropriate and correct.
IU> But suggested patch looks incomplete, it is quite strange when dup_wchar_to_utf8()
IU> function internally performs an action which does not match with the
IU> function name. :-)
IU> So dup_wchar_to_utf8() should be also renamed to dup_wchar_to_oem() for example.
After some more deep thinking I should to take all my words back. :-)
Using OEMCP in suggested patch will break uncode files processing. So it is necessary to
resolve the issue from an opposite end: it is necessary to convert device name to
UTF8 and do no touch existing functions.
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Best regards,
Ivan mailto:ivan.uskov at nablet.com
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