[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] lua: add a guess_encoding function to convert Latin1 to UTF8

Edward Wang edward.c.wang at compdigitec.com
Tue Aug 27 16:33:17 CEST 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:28:13 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>
> wrote:
>> On 27 Aug, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
>>> There was no error, and there is no empty string. This is irrelevant.
>>
>> But the displayed string is wrong.
>
> Of course. Converting from the wrong character set gives wrong output,
> which shows as wrong display. Thank you for proving my point.
>

Is Latin1 not ISO8859-1?



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