[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/1] freetype: handle non-English family and style names in Windows

Salah-Eddin Shaban salshaaban at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 19:08:17 CET 2015


On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> On 18 Nov, Salah-Eddin Shaban wrote :
>> Not really.
>> The characters in p_name are big endian and _tcsncpy won't work with
>> little endian systems.
>
> Wut? That's weird.
>
>> So the U16_AT is necessary.
>
> So we are assuming that we are in UCS-2? Because IIRC UTF-16 is also
> variable length above 2-bytes, no?
>

The spec says: "UGL character set with Unicode indexing scheme"
So it's UTF-16.

Although I'm not sure if the UGL character set has any characters that
require more than 2 bytes.

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