[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Use utf-8 for all source files?

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Mon Mar 12 16:51:20 CET 2007


On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:54:14AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:41:44AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:26:55PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > > Currently most source files with 8-bit letters are latin1 encoded, but
> > > by default mplayer actually use UTF-8 as its internal representation;
> > > the result is that under certain locale, some authors' names (such as
> > > Reimar's) are displayed with ?. Maybe we can run a 'iconv' over all
> > > such files?
> > 
> > What source files are affected?  The idea is really that all sources
> > should be ASCII and all the rest UTF-8.  I think this is the decision we
> > came to when discussing this some time ago because some (legacy?)
> > compilers might possibly choke on UTF-8.  latin-1 is bad, this needs to
> > be fixed in any case.
> 
> IIRC TOOLS/checktree.sh can tell you...

AFAICT it cannot, but it would surely be a desirable feature.  Ivo?

Diego



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