[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GTK2 support

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:06:24PM +0100, Artur Zaprza??a wrote:
> Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> >Though I do not know how to detect the charset of the terminal...
> 
> #include <langinfo.h>
> charset = strdup(nl_langinfo(CODESET));
> 
> or use locale-dependent conversion functions like wcsrtombs instead of 
> iconv.

Not acceptable. MPlayer would first have to process the UTF-8 into
wchar_t values, then call wcstombs. Moreover since MPlayer requires
the C locale, it would have to switch locales every time a message was
printed. This is horribly broken behavior.

I agree strongly that the other solution is the correct one -- using
setlocale only once to get nl_langinfo(CODESET) and then setting
locale back to C and using iconv.

Rich