[MPlayer-dev-eng] locale in GUI

Dan Oscarsson Dan.Oscarsson at tieto.com
Wed Mar 13 08:10:41 CET 2013


tis 2013-03-12 klockan 19:38 +0100 skrev Reimar Döffinger:

> Second, not supporting anything other that UTF-8 should result in
> clear and reproducible behaviour, the current code is open to mysterious
> failures depending on some environment variables almost nobody knows
> about.

We could split mplayer into "server" part and user part. Where server
part only uses C locale. That way the GUI could do what ever it wants
with locale and the server part will not be affected.

I wonder how VLC or XBMC handles it. They should have the same problem.

   Dan



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