[vlc-devel] [RFC] Re: commit: Provide local routine for ISO_6937 -> UTF-8 conversions ( Marian ??urkovi?? )

[jpd at videolan.org]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:49:41AM +0200, Marian ??urkovi?? wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:45:11AM +0200, R??mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:33:41 +0200 (CEST), git at videolan.org (git version
> > control) wrote:
> > > vlc | branch: 1.0-bugfix | Marian ??urkovi?? <md at bts.sk> | [...]
> > > 
> > > Provide local routine for ISO_6937 -> UTF-8 conversions
> > > (cherry picked from commit 475b627e585a1f3132378733e4dfc0076326f6bf)
> > 
> > This is not a bug fix. New features shall not be added to 1.0 without
> > discussion.
> 
> Well, it aims to fix broken display in VLC status line and Window title
> and was tested here to work fine.

It is still a bit steep for a backport to 1.0-bugfix in light of the
"but the bug is elsewhere" argument. It's fine as a workaround in 1.1,
but 1.0, well, let's hear what others say. Ideally discussing this
happens before the backport commit.