Re: Locale Encoding & Filenames
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]>
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David Huang wrote: > Which filenames are we talking about? Filenames specified in the XML > file, filenames specified on the commandline, or both? Previously, filenames in the XML file would be converted to locale encoding. > Filenames specified on the commandline should be assumed to use the > current locale encoding. Actually, they were always used as is, and that hasn’t changed. > Filenames in the XML should be assumed to be the XML file's encoding > (which, if not specified, is UTF-8). libxml2 was always returning strings in UTF-8 encoding, regardless of what the original file contents might have been. DVDAuthor would go through an extra step of converting them to the locale encoding. That step is now a no-op, unless you build DVDAuthor with the -enable-localize-filenames option. > What if someone doesn't feel any need to change? I understand that > EUC-JP is still very popular in Japan. That’s why I provided that build option. The way I see it, there should be a distro-wide policy: either all applications treat filenames as UTF8-encoded, or not. There should not be a mixture where some apps do and some apps don’t. Hence there should be no configuration option to control this; the code should simply be built that way. > You want someone to rename their files to be compatible with dvdauthor, > and incompatible with all the other applications they use? What other applications would be doing locale conversions on filenames? > Have you actually tried your change under Windows? I have no access to Microsoft Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dvdauthor-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvdauthor-users