From 58db02442b375f5669416e6e744a8325ed363f99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:00:00 +0200 Subject: Version 1.7.16 - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Added missing Dtypes for ATSC (thanks to Alex Lasnier). - Updated the Portuguese language texts (thanks to Cristiano A. Silva). - Updated the Finnish OSD texts (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Fixed the array size of Atypes in cPatFilter::Process() (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Added locking to the cCutter functions to avoid a crash in case CutRecording() is called from a plugin (reported by Andreas Mair). - Fixed DDS detection for HD resolution subtitles (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - Fixed following symbolic links in RemoveFileOrDir(). - Added support for languages that are written right-to-left (based on a patch from Osama Alrawab). See INSTALL for information on how to turn this on. - Added Arabian language texts (thanks to Osama Alrawab). --- INSTALL | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ee4f64a..e69768a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ You will also need to install the following libraries, as well as their fontconfig freetype2 + fribidi (see "BiDi support" below) gettext libcap libjpeg @@ -111,6 +112,16 @@ in English. Note that for VDR's internationalized texts to work, the LANG environment variable must be set to a valid locale! +BiDi support +------------ + +Some languages are written right-to-left. In order to display such languages +correctly, you need to build VDR with BIDI=1. This will link to the "fribidi" +library and implement a function that prepares bidirectional texts to be +displayed correctly. Since BiDi support adds some runtime overhead by requiring +additional memory allocation and copying, this feature is not compiled in +by default, so that users that have no need for this don't get any overhead. + Workaround for providers not encoding their EPG data correctly -------------------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3