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mpv/DOCS/OUTDATED-tech/subcp.txt
wm4 5368c46453 Rename DOCS/tech/ to DOCS/OUTATED-tech/
While DOCS/tech/ contains lots of documentation about mplayer's
internals, most of it seems outdated, and hasn't been touched in many
years. On the other hand, there still might be useful things in there,
but it's hard to tell which parts.

Instead of deleting all it, rename the directory to "warn" potential
developers that the documentation is completely outdated.
2012-07-28 20:44:59 +02:00

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Ascii Subtitle / Font CODEPAGEs
===============================
The subtitle encoding issue seems a bit confusing, so I'll try to
summarize it here.
There are 2 approaches:
1. (preferred) You can generate Unicode subtitles with:
subfont --unicode <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
or
subfont --unicode <path to custom encoding file> ...
(this custom encoding file could list all iso-8859-* characters to create
single font file for common encodings)
and then run mplayer this way (-subcp and -utf8 expect Unicode font!):
mplayer -subcp <any encoding known by iconv> ...
or
mplayer -utf8 ...
2. (current) Generate subtitles for some specific encoding with:
subfont <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
or
subfont <path to custom signle-byte or EUC encoding file> ...
and then run mplayer without any encoding options for signle-byte
encodings, or with -unicode option for EUC (and the like) encodings
(which is only partially implemented in mplayer).
AFAIK, CJK encodings: EUC-*, BIG5 and GB2312 work more or less this way:
- 0x8e (SINGLE-SHIFT TWO, SS2) begins a 2-byte character,
- 0x8f (SINGLE-SHIFT THREE, SS3) begins a 3-byte character,
- 0xa0-0xff begin 2-byte characters,
- other characters are single-byte.
I tested charmap2enc script only with /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/EUC-KR.gz
(on RedHat). It wasn't intended to be perfect.
--
Artur Zaprzala