[MPlayer-dev-eng] utf-16 encoded subtitle files

[Magnus Leuthner]

Hi Diego,

attached are the same subtitles encoded as utf16 and as ascii.

Python allows easy conversion:
ascii = open("utf16", "r").read().decode('utf16',
'ignore').encode('ascii', 'ignore')

and vice versa.

-Mac

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Diego Biurrun<diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:59:51PM +0100, Magnus Leuthner wrote:
>>
>> mplayer fails with a rather unhelpful message ("could not detect file
>> format") in case of utf-16 encoded subtitle files passed to the -sub
>> parameter. Attached is a patch that gives a more helpful message about
>> the unsupported character encoding.
>
> Could you provide a short sample subtitle file for testing?
>
> Diego
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