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

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:40:50AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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?
> 
I think that no all ucs-2 char can be converted to "one-char" utf-8
iirc most foreign chars become 3-bytes utf-8, and doesn't fit in a
8-bit charset, mplayer should handle non ansi chars everwhere,
but it's really a big work.

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