From 310671e91a59b5f1841127fb540c5ceac21979ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wm4 <wm4@nowhere>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 13:06:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] charset_conv: support minimum compatibility to utf8:...
 syntax

Because it's the most commonly used one, and trivial to support.
---
 misc/charset_conv.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/misc/charset_conv.c b/misc/charset_conv.c
index c38c1fbd77..5c38cfad0e 100644
--- a/misc/charset_conv.c
+++ b/misc/charset_conv.c
@@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ const char *mp_charset_guess(void *talloc_ctx, struct mp_log *log,  bstr buf,
     {
         mp_err(log, "This syntax for the --sub-codepage option was deprecated "
                     "and has been removed.\n");
-        user_cp = "";
+        if (strncasecmp(user_cp, "utf8:", 5) == 0) {
+            user_cp = user_cp + 5;
+        } else {
+            user_cp = "";
+        }
     }
 
     if (user_cp[0] == '+') {