[Bug 766214] gst-launch: Does not support non-UTF8 shell

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766214

--- Comment #12 from Tim-Philipp Müller <t.i.m at zen.co.uk> ---
That means location=foo will not work correctly on *nix systems with gst-launch
any more (regression), and possibly we're breaking the interface of filesrc's
location property too. Don't know if that's a good idea.

We could do:

1) not care ("gst-launch-1.0 is a debugging tool")

2) convert all args to UTF-8 on Windows only, which would fix this problem and
leave how things work on *nix (including things that don't work right on *nix
if terminal is not UTF-8)

3) convert args to UTF-8 on Windows and Linux, but special case filename-type
properties we know about from a whitelist such as location=xyz and leave those
unconverted on *nix and convert on Windows, which would probably make things
work right thing in 99% of the cases.

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