[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 521663] New: filesrc and filesink should not use open() etc on Windows

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  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | Ver: 0.10.17
           Summary: filesrc and filesink should not use open() etc on
                    Windows
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.10.17
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: ssssam at gmail.com
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


gstreamer can't play some files on Windows due to their character encoding.
This is because filesrc and filesink use open() etc, which only handle 8-bit
character strings.

To me it seems the easiest solution is to convert these to use g_open. On POSIX
this simply wraps open and on Windows converts the path from UTF8 to UTF16 and
calls wopen (16-bit string version).

This seems like a big change, but to me it seems that on POSIX it would change
nothing and on Windows, wouldn't break anything that wasn't already broken
(expecting filenames in bizarre encodings to work when open() simply wouldn't
find them).


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