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

[Salah-Eddin Shaban]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Salah-Eddin Shaban
<salshaaban at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Even if it does, though, it will be 2 16-bit code units.
So I don't see any problem here.

>> With my kindest regards,
>>
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>> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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