[MPlayer-users] Filenames with characters from different alphabets

Reimar Doeffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de
Wed Jun 20 10:09:25 CEST 2007


Hello,
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:30:43AM +0200, Pepe wrote:
> My program reads fine those filenames but... how can I pass them to MPlayer 
> without losing those characters? I can pass the filename in UTF-8 but MPlayer 
> has to know that it's encoded in UTF-8, is there any option for changing the 
> input charset?

A filename is not a translateable or localized string, it is just a
bunch of 0-terminated bytes (some values are disallowed, but that's not
particularly important), and as such you must pass it, any
conversion will break it.

Greetings,
Reimar Doeffinger



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