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 _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
