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Replace old item 'potmeter' by new item 'pimage'. Recent versions of the X11/GTK GUI didn't allow to control a potmeter, because that didn't seem to make any sense. In order to get rid of the confusing potmeter that doesn't distinguish from a hpotmeter and in order to allow the more useful behaviour recent versions of the X11/GTK GUI have been utilized (and because we're still supporting item 'potmeter' for reasons of compatibility with old skins), introduce new item 'pimage' that reuses most of the current potmeter code. Additionally, remove remaining code and documentation of 'potmeter'.

Ascii Subtitle / Font CODEPAGEs
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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.


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Artur Zaprzala