[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v11 1/6] libavutil/wchar_filename.h: Add whcartoutf8, wchartoansi and utf8toansi

nil-admirari at mailo.com nil-admirari at mailo.com
Fri Apr 29 22:25:23 EEST 2022


> As soon as Microsoft actually makes UTF-8
> the default code page going forward, that issue will poof
> out of existence, as if by magic. It already does if you
> toggle it on in the system settings.

True. System-wide UTF-8 can cause problems with legacy software, but starting
with Windows 11 such software can specify a non-UTF8 activeCodePage for itself:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#activeCodePage.

"Set active code page to UTF-8 on Windows" is a separate patch, independent from all others:
https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2022-April/295572.html.
If it's deemed to be too problematic, the rest of the patchset can simply be merged without it.





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