[vorbis] Re: UTF8, vorbiscomment, oggenc, and 'vcedit.c'

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Beni Cherniavksy wrote:

> On 2002-01-12, Nathan I. Sharfi wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:27:36PM -0500, Peter Harris wrote:
> > > > umlaut-u in wchar_t *argv[] appears as superscript-n when wprintf()ed
> > >
> > > That seems to mean they're doing some weird conversion that we can't
> > > really fix.  It might be worth adding a @file option (read arguments),
> > > which is always in UTF-8, so that scripts that want to interface with
> > > this always have at least one reliable way of getting these characters
> > > through.  (Or perhaps in the locale/codepage encoding, I'm not sure.)
> >
> > I'd love having that around...
> >
> Working around the normal option-passing of the brain-dead OS...  That's
> the route DJGPP took on DOS (all apps support response files (@file)
> and also a some other way, system() automatically uses them if the
> called app is a DJGPP program too).
>
> I guess cygwin did something like this around windows too.  They surely
> have better posix support than winNT ;) and probably they support
> unix-styled locale interfaces sanely.  Does anybody know how they support
> it?  Compiling for cygwin will probably let it work transparently with
> other cygwin apps.  Maybe that would be less pain (at least for oggenc /
> vorbiscomment)?
>

Nope, assuming I don't have nor want cygwin on my machine.

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