[MPlayer-DOCS] subtitle encoding switches are incorrect/confusing in mplayer...

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:03:03PM +0200, gabor wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i hope this is the right place to tell this:
> 
> there are at least 4 options in man-mplayer:
> 
> -utf8
> -unicode
> -subcp
> -subfont-encoding
> 
> 
> 1. -subcp says, that it works only if you have iconv installed, and
> -subfont-encoding says it's used when you use freetype..... i have both
> (and imho most of the users have both)..which one should be used?

They do entirely separate things. -subcp tells the encoding of the sub
file you're using! -subfont-encoding tells the encoding of the font
file you're using!

Rich