[MPlayer-users] BUG: long file names with Japanese characters

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The file plays fine under VLC without any problems in Windows.
So I don't see any reason why it can't work in Mplayer under Windows.


2009/3/14 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:33:38PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
>> > For example, the file I have is: (TV) [ドラマ] ブラッディ・マンデイ 第01話 「日本最後の日！1
>> > 人の命か！？千万人の命か！？最凶ウイルステロの陰謀と伝説の天才ハッカ—の闘いがいよいよ今夜はじまる！！」 (1280x720
>> > DivX684).avi
>>
>> I copied one of my existing video files to that filename (on an NTFS
>> filesystem created for the purpose), and it plays just fine in MPlayer
>> from the command line
>
> This is _only_ an issue on Windows, and it is several issues.
> 1) the maximum command-line length on Windows i rather small (though i
> somewhat doubt that is an issue.
> 2) Windows designers thought it intelligent to use UTF-16 (UCS-2
> orignally), thus those Japanese characters can not be passed to MPlayer
> via the normal main() arguments but you must call a special function.
> Since MPlayer cannot and will not use UTF-16 internally, you'd then have
> to convert them to UTF-8.
> 3) Then the same issue exists with the file-open functions, you can not
> use UTF-8 there, thus you can not use the same functions, so you have to
> use different functions to open the files in any place where you want to
> support non-ASCII.
> 4) In order to avoid all that mess which is somewhat hard to implement
> in MPlayer cleanly (though mostly the problem is that nobody cares), I
> think SMPlayer might try to use the short (8.3) name. This has two
> issues: subtitles are not found, since their short name does not relate
> exactly to the short name of the movie, plus I think Vista no longer
> creates short names by default.
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