[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Convert UCS-2LE encoded asf tag

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:57:55AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 2006/8/23, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> >IMHO the charset that MPlayer uses internally is supposed to always be
> >UTF-8, and I do not like adding the iconv dependency.
> 
> Isn't the internal encoding defined as MSG_CHARSET? Then mp_msg()
> converts from MSG_CHARSET to mp_msg_charset (using iconv) and print
> messages out to stdout/stderr.

Well, yes. But I (and AFAICT others) consider the case MSG_CHARSET !=
UTF8 a legacy setup (the only reason for having this is lack of
iconv/libiconv) and not worth adding bloated/ugly or complicated code.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger