Hi Eugen,

On Monday 30 March 2009 17:26:49 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)
>
> For example, I see at
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01225.html:
> > uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Microsoft? LifeCam NX-6000 (045e:00f8)
>
> The character ? is in fact trademark/registered.
>
> My questions: Is this string (camera name) found in the camera or is it
> created by uvcvideo?  Is it in utf-8 or another encoding?

The string comes directly from the camera where it is encoded in UTF-16. The 
kernel USB subsystem transcodes it to ISO-8859-1, hence the '?'.

Best regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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