[vorbis] OggShell v1.0 released

[Beni Cherniavksy]

On 2002-08-16, Peter Harris wrote:

> Actually, oggenc currently only takes characters in the ANSI code page
> (where the ANSI code page is a different code page depending on which
> language of Windows you installed). What a pain.
>
A pity.

> I have a patch that makes oggenc-rc3 take a UCS-16 (the kind of UNICODE that
> is default in windows) command line. The problem is, it causes oggenc to not
> work at all on Win9x/Me.
>
> When I get a round tuit, I'll probably create a patch to oggenc that takes
> UCS-16 on NT/2k/XP, but still uses the ANSI code page command line on 9x/Me.
> It is quite possible to accept UCS-16 on 9x, but (a) I don't feel like
> putting out the effort required, and (b) it's probably pointless, as 9x/Me
> doesn't use UCS-16 natively, so you probably wouldn't get the results you
> wanted anyway.
>
I'd rather have it accept UTF-8 (processing it himself and not messing
with win's support) so I could run oggenc from batch files with utf-8
produced by <any magic way I want, same that I'd use on linux> and encode
files with all possible tags even on win9x (not that use it, except for
gaming ;-).  Windows' ways of handling unicode are hardly dependable
anyway.  It might also be easier to write programs interfacing to this
utf-8 since most programs that deal with vorbis tagging have utf-8 support
already (unless they are broken :).


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