include:

 * export GetFallbackEncoding()
subsdec:
 * autodetect UTF-8 encoding,
 * use better non-Unicode default encoding from language instead of
 CP1252 when local encoding is UTF-8, and local encoding in all other cases
 (should improve subtitles decoding on POSIX a lot)
 * some memory fixes
 * some cosmetic fixes

include/charset.h

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ static inline char *FromWide( const wchar_t *in )
 VLC_EXPORT( char *, __vlc_fix_readdir_charset, ( vlc_object_t *, const char * ) );
 #define vlc_fix_readdir_charset(a,b) __vlc_fix_readdir_charset(VLC_OBJECT(a),b)
 
+VLC_EXPORT( const char *, GetFallbackEncoding, ( void ) );
+
 extern double i18n_strtod( const char *, char ** );
 extern double i18n_atof( const char * );
 VLC_EXPORT( double, us_strtod, ( const char *, char ** ) );

include/vlc_symbols.h

@@ -486,6 +486,7 @@ struct module_symbols_t
     void (*resolve_xml_special_chars_inner) (char *psz_value);
     char * (*FromUTF16_inner) (const uint16_t *);
     const char * (*IsUTF8_inner) (const char *);
+    const char * (*GetFallbackEncoding_inner) (void);
 };
 # if defined (__PLUGIN__)
 #  define aout_FiltersCreatePipeline (p_symbols)->aout_FiltersCreatePipeline_inner
@@ -952,6 +953,7 @@ struct module_symbols_t
 #  define resolve_xml_special_chars (p_symbols)->resolve_xml_special_chars_inner
 #  define FromUTF16 (p_symbols)->FromUTF16_inner
 #  define IsUTF8 (p_symbols)->IsUTF8_inner
+#  define GetFallbackEncoding (p_symbols)->GetFallbackEncoding_inner
 # elif defined (HAVE_DYNAMIC_PLUGINS) && !defined (__BUILTIN__)
 /******************************************************************
  * STORE_SYMBOLS: store VLC APIs into p_symbols for plugin access.
@@ -1421,6 +1423,7 @@ struct module_symbols_t
     ((p_symbols)->resolve_xml_special_chars_inner) = resolve_xml_special_chars; \
     ((p_symbols)->FromUTF16_inner) = FromUTF16; \
     ((p_symbols)->IsUTF8_inner) = IsUTF8; \
+    ((p_symbols)->GetFallbackEncoding_inner) = GetFallbackEncoding; \
     (p_symbols)->net_ConvertIPv4_deprecated = NULL; \
     (p_symbols)->__stats_CounterGet_deprecated = NULL; \
     (p_symbols)->__stats_TimerDumpAll_deprecated = NULL; \