Bug#552205: vlc: VLC does not trying to detect encoding of playlists, downloaded via HTTP

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

tags 552205 + upstream wontfix
thanks

	Hello,

Le samedi 24 octobre 2009 11:47:06, vous avez écrit :
> When VLC downloading a playlist via HTTP (like
>  http://tiera.tv/channels.m3u), it does not trying to detect codepage.

It does not have to. M3U are specified to be in Latin-1, and M3U8 in UTF-8. As 
a special exception, VLC allows UTF-8 in M3U as autodetection is easy and 
fairly reliable.

To the contrary, discriminating variants of ISO-8859-x character set is not 
generally feasible in an automatic fashion. Using the HTTP Content-Type 
charset attribute is not supported by the VLC architecture. Also it would be 
quite helpless as the web browsers typically save the playlist file to disk 
before feeding the path to VLC - at that point the character set parameter is 
lost.

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