Laurent Pinchart wrote: > 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 '?'.
Thanks, Laurent, for the fast reply. - Is it true that the name for all the camera come from the camera itself? - Is it true that all the camera store their name in utf-16? - Why the kernel usb subsystem transcode them to latin-1 and not to utf-8? - 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. Thanks! -- Eugen _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
