[MPlayer-dev-eng] locale in GUI

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 13 Mar 2013, at 08:10, Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson at tieto.com> wrote:
> 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.

Why did you quote just that part of my email? Whether setlocale is used or not does not affect the issues with file name encoding much.
Anyway that is already how all MPlayer GUIs are supposed to work, just our own isn't (yet?).