[MPlayer-dev-eng] Small changes to subreader.c file

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 14:02:56 CEST 2005


Hi,

On 10/8/05, Adam Tlałka <atlka at pg.gda.pl> wrote:
> Dnia Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:36:29 +0200, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx>
> napisał:

[..]


  > > By filling it with broken legacy crap like \r and "codepages"?? No
> > thanks.. Both of these can be done with trivial external tools if you
> > insist (tr/sed/iconv).
> It's just a legacy format so it should be generated properly without need
> for using external stuff or you should write clearly in the man page that
> mplayer
> doesn't produce original SRT format but just an utf8 encoded Unix text file
> variation of original format. Compatibility is important or you are doing
> like
> MS defining your "proper" solutions.

Nope, what MS usually does is not conforming to
standards/norms/whatever which have been published before any
implementation is even available. Like CSS 2 or other nice
technologies...

If you can show us the norm, then it'll allow this discussion to end
with a proper solution, but until then...

Guillaume
--
Reading doesn't hurt, really!
  -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski


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