Added a note about 'iocharset=utf8' to the INSTALL file

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 1e97120a..eccdb2af 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1043,3 +1043,6 @@ Martin Dauskardt <md001@gmx.de>
 
 Maynard Cedric <maynard.cedric@wanadoo.fr>
  for reporting a problem in handling the color button texts in cMenuEditStrItem
+
+Jörg Knitter <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>
+ for reporting a problem in case the video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8"
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index a1d5f192..842445a8 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2896,14 +2896,18 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 2004-06-19: Version 1.3.11
 
 - In order to avoid problems on NPTL systems, VDR now checks for the presence
-  of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to do
+  of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to do
   'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1' before starting VDR.
 - Revisited the "Fixed missing audio after replaying a DVD" change because it
   introduced a sound disturbance when switching between channels on the same
   transponder (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
 - In order to avoid problems on UTF-8 systems, VDR now checks for the presence
-  of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to turn off
-  UTF-8 before starting VDR.
+  of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to turn off
+  UTF-8 before starting VDR (thanks to Ludwig Nussel for pointing out a problem
+  with systems that are set to use UTF-8). There are also problems in case the
+  video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8" (thanks to Jörg Knitter for
+  reporting this one).
+  Please also read the "IMPORTANT NOTES" section in the INSTALL file!
 - Some changes to the SPU decoder interface (thanks to Sven Goethel).
 - Some improvements in cOsd creation (thanks to some suggestions by Jouni Karvo).
 - Fixed calculating the OSD width and height (thanks to Olaf Henkel for reporting
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4eefa98b..f054d7ab 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ $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.
+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:
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