[vlc-devel] unicode question

Damien Fouilleul damien.fouilleul at laposte.net
Wed Aug 29 19:20:35 CEST 2007


you need to read about UTF8, you got it all wrong

howard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	As I know, the hex value for Unicode code point U+6211 is A7DA. Is
> this correct?
> 	So if I declare a char array like this, char utf8_value[4] = { 0xa7,
> 0xda, 0, 0 } ;, and pass it to libvlc.dll, this is gonna work, right?
> 	But I got nothing! Please point it out if anything above is wrong.
> 	Thanks for the help.
>
> 	Best Regards,
>
> 	Howard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org]
> On Behalf Of howard
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:11 PM
> To: 'Mailing list for VLC media player developers'
> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] unicode question
>
> Hi,
> 	I do convert the file path to UTF8 before passing to libvlc.
> 	Take another example, I wanna show something like "\u6211", which
> means "I" in Chinese, on the screen as OSD message. It doesn't show it.
> 	Or if anyone can show me a sample code for this. That would be
> great.
> 	By the way, I'm using version 0.8.6c.
> 	Thanks again!
>
> 	Best Regards,
>
> 	Howard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-devel-bounces at videolan.org]
> On Behalf Of Damien Fouilleul
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:34 PM
> To: Mailing list for VLC media player developers
> Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] unicode question
>
> convert all file paths to UTF8 before passing them to VLC
>
> howard wrote:
>   
>> *Hi all,*
>>
>> * I'm using libvlc.dll in my project.*
>>
>> * Recently I have faced a problem about Unicode. If the file name or 
>> the file path of the video has Chinese characters, then it can not be 
>> played.*
>>
>> * It works fine with English. So please give me some hints about this.*
>>
>> * Thank you so much!*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> * Best Regards,*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> * Howard.*
>>
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