[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] automatic charset conversion for output

[Robert Swain]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 11:53, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:15:02PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:00:47PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > the attached patch would change the format of the message strings to
> > > UTF8 (thus they will work properly with GTK2, someone should test GTK1
> > > though) and convert them as required in mp_msg.
> > > This is more lika a draft, so feel free to add suggestions...
> >
> > This one should work a bit better, esp. with gtk1 (though gtk1 is quite
> > broken in many ways, so I guess we don't have to support it too much
> > anyway...).
>
> So, what about it? Did anyone test? Any problems left?
> Does it work well enough when iconv is not available (e.g. MinGW!)?

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm
(for MinGW)

I haven't had chance to test yet though, sorry.

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Rob