[MPlayer-DOCS] [RFC] converting all files in help/ to UTF-8

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:41:35PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> currently MPlayer by default converts the files in help/ to UTF-8 during
> compilation. So the question is: are there any objections to just
> convert them to UTF-8 in our tree? e.g. are any of you having problems
> editing UTF-8 files? Any other comments?

I'm strongly in favor of it, but the standard objection is that the
current system allows users with legacy systems who are both (a) using
a legacy encoding, and (b) do not have iconv, to build and use MPlayer
in an encoding-ignorant way.

Rich