Does libvlc support Unicode?

[Kevin Hoang]

I want to make a small player to play a video with file name has unicode part. Does libvlc support Unicode?

[XilasZ]

yes it does.

[Kevin Hoang]

Look at the libvlc APIs, it only allow basic c string (char*), so how may I add unicode file name to my player?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC uses UTF-8.

[XilasZ]

Look at the libvlc APIs, it only allow basic c string (char*), so how may I add unicode file name to my player?

Yes. Just as Rémi said, it's UTF8, so special characters are just encoded on several chars, just send several chars for those, VLC will recognize them.