Hi Eugen, On Sunday 03 May 2009 22:14:03 Eugen Dedu wrote: > Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Hi Eugen, > > > >> - Why the kernel usb subsystem transcode them to latin-1 and not to > >> utf-8? > > > > You will have to ask the USB subsystem developers. > > > >> - Do the linux kernel transcodes to latin-1 or it depends on how it was > >> configured? Is it the same for linux, windows and macos? It's because > >> I want to retranscode it to utf-8, and I need to know its current > >> encoding. > > > > The USB subsystem transcodes the UTF-16 strings to Latin-1 regardless of > > configuration options. I have no idea how Windows and MacOS handle that. > > Hi Laurent, > > For info, starting from 2.6.31 (normally) the usb sub-system will return > device names in utf-8, see e-mail attached.
I've seen the mails on the linux-usb mailing list. If 2.6.31 breaks the uvcvideo driver I'll hold you as personally responsible then ;-) Thanks for reporting the problem and pushing for a fix. Regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
