[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Windows1250 to ISO8859-2 subtitles

[Artur Zaprzala]

Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>>>yes, but there are still no unicode fonts available...
>>>
>>>subfont-c can generate them with --unicode option.
>>
>>yes, but, who has any .ttf file having chars for _all_ (at least european)
>>languages? and what about various chinese/korean/russian sets?
>>
>>or we should make a font manager, importing many localized version of the
>>same font (for example arial.ttf from various localized windows versions)
>>and making an uniqe set of them?
>>
>>
>>>I have got a few ideas for i18n in MPlayer:
>>>- is any point in creating alternate conversion mechanism besides 
>>>iconv() (like placing conversion tables in font.desc) for platforms 
>>>without iconv?
One encoding for a font is not enough (e.g. cp1250 and iso-8859-2 are in 
use for Polish language). In case there is no iconv, encoding tables 
could be in font.desc.
>>>- what about using locales for conversion (mbrtowc())?
When iconv is lacking, locales (see: info libc locales) could be used to 
convert subtitle encoding to Unicode (when font.desc uses Unicode only).

>>
> could you explain these two points above?

I would like to know what the others think about the above.

Artur Zaprzala