[linux-dvb] Re: DVB character coding...

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>]

Jesper Sörensen wrote:
> BTW, do you happen to know what they mean when they say the following 
> (WRT 16-bit codings):
> 
> * if the first byte of the text field has a value "0x10" then the 
> following two bytes carry a 16-bit value (uimsbf) N
> to indicate that the remaining data of the text field is coded using the 
> character code table specified by
> ISO Standard 8859, parts 1 to 9;
> 
> What does that mean? High byte selects table and low byte has the 
> character code?

I believe it is just braindeadness to use 16bit to code integer 1..9
to select the encoding. The character data itself is 8bit.

> * if the first byte of the text field has a value "0x11" then the 
> remaining bytes in the text item are coded in pairs
> in accordance with the Basic Multilingual Plane of ISO/IEC 10646-1 [8];
> 
> Is this UCS-2?

Yes, "UCS2" for iconv. BTW, 0x12 is "EUC-KR".

Johannes