[mythtv] [PATCH] More CC stuff

[David]

There is a(t least one) wheel already...

http://www.perl.com/language/newdocs/lib/utf8.html

ie this: \x{|263A}, is a smiley face

\x{ is the 'escape'
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David
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:

>>>>>>Simon Kenyon writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
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>s> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 03:22, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
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>
>>>Looks like there are 11 CC character codes that aren't in
>>>the Latin-1 character set but they're all present in Unicode.  I was
>>>thinking of translating these characters to some unused codes
>>>(128-159) rather than storing Unicode in the nuv file.  Any problems
>>>with this?
>>>      
>>>
>
>s> ugh and double ugh
>s> don't do that!
>s> use unicode please
>
>        Yeah, but the CC character set is limited.  It also doesn't
>map one-to-one with Latin-1 so we have to do some translation already.
>It seems a waste to go to Unicode just to represent 11 extra
>characters.  Also, it means the nuv file format changes and the player
>will still need to be able to play both old and new files.
>
>        Maybe an an escape code to temporarily switch to Unicode?  Is
>there a standard for that?
>  
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