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r27801 Clarify screenw/screenh options, patch by Christian Ohm, chr.ohm gmx net. r27872 Add a few more supported URL protocols r27895 Fix typo in psy-rd x264 option description. r27906 document x264's option subq=0, plus a bit of factoring and added details r27973 add direct3d docs, ok'd by Guillaume r27979 Make description of the option more clear r28056 Add a note about some known issues with -vo sdl r28095 Document missing vo_gl suboptions r28096 Using rectangle=2 for vo_gl is probably a good idea nowadays. r28126 Add support for writing PNG files with alpha channel in -vo png

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.


-- 
Artur Zaprzala