[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v11 1/6] libavutil/wchar_filename.h: Add whcartoutf8, wchartoansi and utf8toansi

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 1:12 PM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> From my point of view:
> ffmpeg is already working pretty well in handling long file paths (also with
> Unicode characters) when pre-fixing paths with \\?\, and this is working
> on all Windows versions without all the caveats, requirements and conditions
> that I mentioned.

"We have already worked around this problem in our deployment,
therefore there is no need to try to improve it" is surely not a very
strong argument.

Will your work-around continue to work? Yes.
Will the changes actually impact anyone negatively? No known case is
documented, here or otherwise.
Will this change objectively improve the operation of ffmpeg on
Windows? Maybe not for everyone (yet), but certainly it'll allow it to
do so in controlled environments.

I'm not seeing a good argument here to generally block the patch on,
as this entire thread boils down to .. what? Fear of change?
Unless you can demonstrate an actual problem resulting from applying
this patch, this line of arguments seems not very productive.

- Hendrik