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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- INSTALL | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 012dd94..f054d7a 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Installation of the Video Disk Recorder Version 1.3 ----------- -IMPORTANT NOTE: ---------------- +IMPORTANT NOTES: +---------------- VDR currently doesn't work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library"). Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable @@ -14,6 +14,19 @@ Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable before running VDR. +Also, please make sure your environment is NOT set to use UTF-8 or +any other multibyte character representation. Check the value of your +$LANG or $LC_CTYPE environment variable, and if it contains something +like "de_DE.UTF-8", make sure you set it to something like "de_DE.iso8859-1" +or whatever single byte character mode you want. If you run VDR with +UTF-8 enabled, it may crash in case it encounters EPG or channel data +that contains non-7-bit ASCII characters. Another problem may occur if +you have mounted your video partition with "iocharset=utf8". In that case +recordings that contain umlauts or other non-seven-bit ASCII characters +may be displayed wrong, or not at all. Please make sure you mount your +video partition with "iocharset=iso8859-1" or whatever single byte character +mode you want. + Compiling and running the program: ---------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3