On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:53:12PM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Alan Stern wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Eugen Dedu wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> (This e-mail is because we have a bug about a camera name which seems > >> not to be in utf-8, > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ekiga/+bug/345192?comments=all) > >> > >> I was told > >> (http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-uvc-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04022.html) > >> that camera names (and possibly others, such as device names) are > >> recorded as utf-16 in cameras, and linux usb subsystem transforms them > >> to latin-1 (iso-8859-1) before making them available to applications. > >> > >> This is an inconvenient for applications which should print them (to > >> terminal or to windows), as nowadays utf-8 is ubiquitous. > >> > >> So my question is: why does usb linux use latin-1 and not utf-8? > > > > Because the code was written that way originally and nobody has ever > > changed it. This may sound facetious, but it is the simple truth. > > Thanks for the fast reply! > > I see now the corresponding function, at > http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.29/drivers/usb/core/message.c#L761. I > looked at several places where it is used, and until now it seems that > changing it to utf-8 has no negative impacts on the other code. Do you > think that it is feasible (easy) to really make this change? I don't think it would be that difficult, but watch out for the different encoding conversions that might be needed. Care to send a patch doing this? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
