[openal] OpenAL Soft string encodings
Chris Robinson
chris.kcat at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 13:54:33 EDT 2014
A sort-of announcement and sort-of query.
Recently with the Windows version of OpenAL Soft, I started handling the
various device name strings by taking the wide-char representation (as
given by the various *W functions), and converting them to UTF-8. This
means that, on Windows, the strings now use UTF-8 encoding rather than
the active code-page (ACP), and can effectively represent all Unicode
characters. The reasoning for this is that the active code-page may not
be able to properly represent any possible string identifier that the
system may have.
Further, on other non-Windows systems the current assumption is that the
system is set to use UTF-8 strings. The idea is to make OpenAL Soft use
UTF-8 encoding for all strings that get passed in to and out from the
lib, on as many systems as is feasible.
So the questions I have is:
Is this change on Windows (making strings use UTF-8 instead of ACP)
going to be a problem?
Is there anything I can realistically do on non-Windows systems aside
from assuming char strings are UTF-8?
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