[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Support for UTF8 filenames on Windows

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:01:31AM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> > agree, i also dont like the idea of adding such stuff to random structs
> 
> Reimar, could you please comment on the replies? If there are no more
> comments or objections I'll apply it on the weekend.

I don't mind much, it just seems a bit unfortunate that a user might set this
variable to make one application that is aware of it work with Unicode while
at the same time completely confusing some older app that wasn't update to even
know about this new feature (thus libavformat and the app disagreeing which file
a certain URL refers to).
Also, I think this will not work with drag-and-drop (e.g. drop a file on ffplay.exe),
for that you would have to call the GetCommandLineW or what it is called function,
which gives you the command argc/argv as UTF-16 and convert that to UTF-8 (this
is IMO the less ugly way, instead of using a _wmain instead of main).