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

[Evgeniy Stepanov]

On Thursday 16 July 2009 14:38:12 Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 7/12/09, Magnus Leuthner <magnus.leuthner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Magnus
> >
> > Leuthner<magnus.leuthner at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM, compn<tempn at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:59:51 +0100, Magnus Leuthner wrote:
> >>>>+    // check or unsupported utf-16 encoding and inform the user
> >>>>+    if( j == 1 &&
> >>>>+        (line[0]) == (char)0xFF && (line[1]) == (char)0xFE ||
> >>>>+        (line[0]) == (char)0xFE && (line[1]) == (char)0xFF
> >>>>+    ) {
> >>>>+        mp_msg(MSGT_SUBREADER,MSGL_ERR,"SUB: File seems to be UTF-16
> >>>> encoded. This encoding is not supported.\n");
> >>>>+        return SUB_INVALID;
> >>>
> >>> it might be worth it to try to continue anyways, in the event of a
> >>> false positive? adding a simple command line that will convert the file
> >>> for them too?
> >>>
> >>> also this error message could go in help/help_mp-en.h
> >>> so it can be translated.
> >>>
> >>> -compn
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> >>
> >> Attached is the patch with the error message moved to
> >> help/help_mp-en.h (and help_mp-de.h). I don't think the functionality
> >> to convert character encodings belongs into the mplayer code, I just
> >> wrote this patch to save other users the 30 minutes it took me to
> >> realize the sub-file ENCODING was unsupported rather than the text
> >> content itself.
>
> MPlayer uses iconv for character encoding conversion, you control it
> via -subcp. I really doubt that such popular encoding is not supported
> by it.
>
> Also, the enca library is used automatic detection of the subtitle
> encodings. Do you have it build and configured properly?
> ("subcp=enca:en:ascii"). I have got the impression that it is quite good
> with guessing windows encodings.

subreader applies iconv to subtitle lines after detecting format and parsing 
the whole file. This only works if file encoding is ascii-compatible.