[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Translate messages

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 20 Jan 2011, at 23:52, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:32:44PM +0100, Ingo Brückl wrote:
>> I wrote on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:01:02 +0100:
>> 
>>> Reimar Döffinger wrote on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:11:22 +0100:
>> 
>>>> 1) there is no reason why the filename encoding would have to have any
>>>> relation with the font encoding.
>> 
>>> Yes, that's true, but there is no information about the font encoding so
>>> that's a kind of "best assumption". If a filename is displayed correctly
>>> in the GUI, the messages will most likely be, too.
>> 
>> Actually, what I wrote is rubbish because only people with non-UTF-8
>> filenames would have something to convert to. But conversion must take
>> place anyway.
>> 
>> So either we add a font encoding information to the skins (and make
>> ISO-8859-1 the default?) or demand a specific encoding to be used.
>> 
>> Preferences?
> 
> I have no opinion on GUI matters, but the only sane encoding choice in
> the 21st century is UTF-8.

Not sure it is worth the effort, but yes the font should use UTF code point numbers.
You can then just use the GET_UTF8 macro to convert the input text (at some place).
A perfect solution would the also try to get replacements for any characters not in the font via fontconfig, but that's at best something for a very long-term plan.