[Translators] Removal of ToLocale(Dup)
Rémi Denis-Courmont
remi at remlab.net
Mon Mar 19 21:42:57 CET 2012
Hello,
On Windows, any use of ToLocale() or ToLocaleDup() is a bug. Either the VLC
file system wrappers or the Unicode variants of Win32 API must be used
instead. On other systems, ToLocale() is a no-op.
ToLocale() is still used in the following places:
1) CDDA, VCD, VCDX, dvdnav and dvdread. This breaks access to non-ANSI file
paths. This bug has been reported for dvdnav/dvdread so many times that I lost
track of it.
2) Skins2. This is not funny anymore. Bug #831 has been opened for more than
five years. I infer nobody cares about Skins2.
3) GnuTLS. Loading certificates from file system does not work on Windows.
4) gettext. Running VLC from non-ANSI path breaks localization on Windows.
Also through utf8_fprintf():
5) Command line help. Localized help is totally broken on Windows. Mind that
some locales are UTF-8 only...
6) Console logging.
7) M3U export.
This needs fixing.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
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