[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Translate messages

[Ingo Brückl]

Reimar Döffinger wrote on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:11:22 +0100:

> 1) there is no reason why the filename encoding would have to have any
> relation with the font encoding.

Yes, that's true, but there is no information about the font encoding so
that's a kind of "best assumption". If a filename is displayed correctly in
the GUI, the messages will most likely be, too.

We could add font encoding information in skins, though...

> 2) font files can and should use UTF-8, [...] (well, depending on whether
> we are talking about the same "font", I haven't checked where exactly these
> strings are used).

The "font" files used for the GUI are single byte character bitmaps. See
gui/skin/font.h:

typedef struct
{
 fntChar    Fnt[256];
 ...
} bmpFont;

So everything that is written to the GUI window(s) (including messages) must
be single byte'd. too (or it'll look strange).

Ingo