[MPlayer-dev-eng] What's the use of '-unicode'?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:49:18PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 
> Seems that only the libvo/ staff makes use of sub_unicode, so even the
> user provides -unicode in the command line, his ucs-2 encoded
> subtitles won't be recognized by subread.c. So what's the point
> exactly is here? Do we support ucs-2 encoded subtitles anyway?
> 
> We may need some clarification in documenting the usage of -unicode,
> -utf-8 and -subcp, too.

Yes, this is definitely very confusing.  Anyone?

Diego