[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Windows1250 to ISO8859-2 subtitles

[Artur Zaprzala]

Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>Am Mon, 2002-03-25 um 13.59 schrieb berdzi:
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>I've recently wrote a small patch to Mplayer that could be pretty useful
>>>for Poles. Its purpose is to convert at playing time subtitles coded is
>>>Windows 1250 format to ISO-8859-2. Most Polish subtitles are coded in
>>>Windows 1250 and I always had to convert them with external software to
>>>ISO. I include version for today CVS (20020325).
>>>
>>>I tested it and I hope it will be useful
>>
>>IMHO MPlayer can already do runtime codepage conversion from anything to
>>unicode using iconv feature...
> 
> 
> yes, but there are still no unicode fonts available...
subfont-c can generate them with --unicode option.

I have got a few ideas for i18n in MPlayer:
- is any point in creating alternate conversion mechanism besides 
iconv() (like placing conversion tables in font.desc) for platforms 
without iconv?
- what about using locales for conversion (mbrtowc())?
- what about placing multiple charsets in a single *.raw file 
(multi-language fonts)?
- what about creating and using only Unicode fonts with MPlayer?


Artur Zaprzala