[vorbis] TAG Standard - ENSEMBLE/PERFORMER tags

Craig Dickson crdic at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 9 16:33:21 PST 2002



Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:57:33PM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> > > (For Windows, it needs to convert to and from the codepage.)
> > 
> > See vorbis-tools/share/utf8.c: We already convert _to_ the current code
> > page. What we don't do is convert _from_ the current code page. We would,
> > except Windoze translates everything into the ANSI code page before passing
> > it in via argv.
> 
> Are you sure?  This is the type of behavior I used to believe Windows
> did universally.  It turns out that, wherever it uses ANSI in a normal,
> English install, it uses the language's encoding when set to that
> language.  If you're on a Japanese system (or a system set to the Japanese
> codepage), you get Shift-JIS everywhere.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if Windows was inconsistent and didn't do this
> for commandlines.  I can't test this right now, since changing this
> in Windows needs a reboot.

It sounds like you think for a Japanese build of Windows, "ANSI code
page" means the same thing as for the standard US build. This is not
correct. In Japanese Windows, the "ANSI code page" is a Japanese code
page. Does that help?

Craig

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