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Re: [Libcdio-devel] Backup mentors needed for libcdio and Google Summer
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Burkhard Plaum |
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Re: [Libcdio-devel] Backup mentors needed for libcdio and Google Summer of Code 2006 |
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Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:46:32 +0200 |
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Hi,
R. Bernstein wrote:
Hi -
Google Summer of Code is on. I will be suggesting libcdio projects.
The current list of ideas is here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/libcdio/libcdio/doc/2006-summer-of-code.txt
> 7. Wide character support for CD-Text.
> [Burkhard Plaum has might want to mentor this. If so he should
> write a more detailed description than given above]
I would call it CD-Text charset support. The idea is to detect the character
set of CDText data and convert them to UTF-8 (or, alternatively to some user
defined charset, but I think just UTF-8 would be enough at least on modern
Linux systems).
This would involve:
- Detecting the character set of a particular CDtext entry. Documentation
for this is hard to get, but the sources of some burning programs can help
here.
- Write the string conversion using iconv (I have some working and stable code
in gmerlin, I can donate for this).
- Test with as many CDs as possible (at least some western European languages,
ideally also Japanese/Chinese/Arabic).
Would really great :)
Cheers
Burkhard