[MPlayer-dev-eng] configure: --charset and MSG_CHARSET

Zuxy Meng zuxy.meng at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 14:28:49 CET 2006


Hi,

2006/11/7, Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav.maslovski at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I have noticed the following after checking out the current svn today.
> If --charset is not supplied at the configure stage then MSG_CHARSET
> gets undefined. This results in skipping the conversion code in mp_msg.c.
> Together with my KOI8-R locale this produces unreadable output on the
> console. Setting --charset=koi8-r helps with the console output, but
> completely messes up with the GUI output (if I do --enable-gui).
>
> A trivial work-around is to always set --charset=utf-8, however this
> looks a bit silly. I would better propose to define MSG_CHARSET as utf-8
> by default, rather than having it undefined if --charset was not supplied
> at the configure stage.

Or throw away '--charset=utf-8' completely and make internal
representation UTF-8 always.
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