* update news.

* backport [17230] DnD unicode fixes in wxWidgets

NEWS

 $Id$
 
-Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6-test1:
 --------------------------------
 
 Playlist:
@@ -11,10 +11,15 @@ Input:
  * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
  * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
  * ATSC support for DVB
+ * Support for DVR-ms
 
 Decoders:
  * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
  * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
+ * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * WavPack support
+ * Improved H264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)c
 
 Video output:
  * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
@@ -34,6 +39,7 @@ Localization:
 
 Developers:
  * Updates to the libvlc API
+ * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
 
 
 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5:

modules/gui/wxwidgets/wxwidgets.hpp

@@ -110,15 +110,11 @@ DECLARE_LOCAL_EVENT_TYPE( wxEVT_INTF, 1 );
 	
 /* From Locale functions to use for File Drop targets ... go figure */
 #ifdef wxUSE_UNICODE
+#include <wchar.h>
+
 static inline char *wxDnDFromLocale( const wxChar *stupid )
 {
     /*
-     * FIXME: this is yet another awful and ugly bug-to-bug work-around
-     * for the painfully broken and brain-dead wxWidgets character
-     * encoding internals. Maybe, one day the wxWidgets team will find out
-     * and we will have to remove (phew) this kludge or autodetect whether
-     * to trigger it (damn).
-     *
      * In Unicode mode, wxWidgets will encode file names in the locale
      * encoding with each **bytes** (rather than characters) represented
      * by a 32 bits unsigned integer. If you are lucky enough to be using
@@ -128,14 +124,14 @@ static inline char *wxDnDFromLocale( const wxChar *stupid )
      * UTF-8 but also Windows-1252(!) and ISO-8859-15(!) or any
      * non-western encoding, it obviously fails.
      */
-    const wxChar *braindead;
-    for (braindead = stupid; *braindead; braindead++);
-
-    size_t i = (braindead - stupid);
-    char psz_local[i + 1];
-    do
-        psz_local[i] = (char)stupid[i];
-    while (i--);
+    size_t n = wcslen (stupid);
+    char psz_local[n + 1];
+
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++)
+        psz_local[i] = stupid[i];
+
+    if ((n >= 1) && (stupid[n - 1] == '\n'))
+        psz_local[n - 1] = '\0';
 
     return FromLocaleDup( psz_local );
 }