[Ffmpeg-devel] Compilation with --enable-theora fails

[Måns Rullgård]

"Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:

>> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:01:46PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> > Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
>> > >> - you sometimes use kanji, or other character sets, you need to 
>> > > > assume 
>> > >> that everybody have to right font.
>> > >
>> > > agree. however if someone needs subtitles they certainly don't
>> > > understand kanji and don't need to see it in the subs.
>> > 
>> > A Japanese person watching a French movie would almost certainly
>> > like to have subtitles in kanji.
>> 
>> And they will almost certainly have a kanji font on their computer,
>> ne?
>
> Sane OSes use UTF-8 by default, and have the needed fonts for that.

Fonts and encodings are separate, at least to some extent.  Even if
you use utf-8 as your character encoding, you need to have quite few
fonts to cover all the alphabets.  I use utf-8, but I still don't have
fonts for lots of alphabets I can't read anyway.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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