Re: [Libcdio-devel] CD-Text support for macOS and Windows

[Rocky Bernstein]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:58 AM Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the macOS patches. I will probably try the Windows code this
> weekend.
>

For what it is  worth, I was able to build the current master on Windows 10
pro and Msys2. I suspect though that master doesn't have Robert's latest
patches.

It looks like CDDB reading has bit rot. But that is a different story.




>
> Personally, I welcome a more distributed approach for this project and git
> works well with this.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:49 PM Robert Kausch via Libcdio-devel <
> libcdio-devel@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's been a long time since I've been active here and it's time to
>> contribute some patches again...
>>
>> I just pushed the cdtext-osx and cdtext-win32 branches which add/improve
>> support for reading CD-Text on those systems. The win32 branch also has
>> patches for the Windows-specific text conversion functions to fix UTF-8
>> to UCS-2 conversion and add support for converting ISO-8859-1 and Shift
>> JIS to UTF-8, needed for proper CD-Text support.
>>
>> If there are no objections, I'd like to merge these to master after a
>> few days.
>>
>> The macOS code has been in use in the macOS version of fre:ac for the
>> past 3 years already, so I'd consider it well tested. The Windows code,
>> however, I only tested myself when I initially developed it, so if
>> someone else could give it a try, that would be great.
>>
>> By the way, I already committed a fix for a crash affecting macOS
>> Ventura last week. Sorry for not announcing it on the mailing list first.
>>
>> Best,
>> Robert
>>
>> --
>> ----
>> Robert Kausch
>> robert.kausch@freac.org
>>
>>
>>