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.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
.\" vdr distribution.
.\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.61 2007/01/07 14:04:12 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.62 2007/06/03 13:21:34 kls Exp $
.\"
.TH vdr 5 "07 Jan 2007" "1.4.5" "Video Disk Recorder Files"
.SH NAME
@@ -249,9 +249,14 @@ cause the timer to record on that day. Example:
.B MTWTF\-\-
will define a timer that records on Monday through Friday and does not record
-on weekends. The same result could be achieved with \fBABCDE\-\-\fR (this is
-used to allow setting the days with language specific characters).
+on weekends.
Note that only letters may be used here, no digits.
+For compatibility with timers created with earlier versions of VDR,
+the same result could be achieved with \fBABCDE\-\-\fR (which was
+used to allow setting the days with language specific characters).
+Since version 1.5.3 VDR can use UTF-8 characters to present data to
+the user, but the weekday encoding in the \fItimers.conf\fR file
+always uses single byte characters.
The day definition of a `repeating' timer may be followed by the date when that
timer shall hit for the first time. The format for this is \fB@YYYY\-MM\-DD\fR,