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diff --git a/DOCS/OUTDATED-tech/subcp.txt b/DOCS/OUTDATED-tech/subcp.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..50d9cc69f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/DOCS/OUTDATED-tech/subcp.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Ascii Subtitle / Font CODEPAGEs +=============================== + +The subtitle encoding issue seems a bit confusing, so I'll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 |