[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avutil/log: in colored_fputs, convert string from utf8 to CP_ACP charset on Windows

Jan Ekstrom jeebjp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 17:24:25 CET 2014


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:22 AM, 周泽华 <zhouzehua at gmail.com> wrote:
> In fact, the output is a messy mix before the patch, at least on my computer.
> ...

Yes, it is mixed with strings that don't get converted to UTF-8
internally. It's a bit messy. Yes. But you don't make that 'work
better' by making it even worse, by making things that are output from
the internal representation non-deterministic. In my case, as an
example regarding my current non-unicode code page and some of the
languages I know, I would get some CJK strings and cyrillics in
non-unicode code page, and then strings with öäå would get output
as-is. This is, if I understood how this patch makes it work correctly
(output in non-unicode code page if it can be converted, otherwise
output as-is).

I know proper Windows unicode command line output as reimar noted
(find out if output is to a command line or not, use WriteConsoleW if
it is) is hard to implement properly, and I know that it does not give
you a quick "fix" for a problem. But I wholeheartedly am against
converting output to non-unicode code pages, and making it "readable"
in the command line with that (and actually brushing the underlying
problem under the mat).


With all due respect,
Jan Ekström


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