Changed the default character set for SI data from ISO6937 to ISO-8859-9

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 5390025a..aeae7a5d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5690,3 +5690,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - The 'plugins' target in the Makefile now returns an error exit code if one of the
   plugins failed to compile (suggested by Tobias Grimm).
 - Rendering the non-breaking space symbol as a blank (thanks to Tobias Grimm).
+- Changed the default character set for SI data from ISO6937 (as required by the DVB
+  standard ETSI EN 300 468) to ISO-8859-9, in order to work around the stupidity of
+  some providers, who actually use ISO-8859-9, but fail to correctly announce that.
diff --git a/libsi/si.c b/libsi/si.c
index 9dc6a995..43ef0382 100644
--- a/libsi/si.c
+++ b/libsi/si.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- *   $Id: si.c 1.23 2008/02/26 16:25:14 kls Exp $
+ *   $Id: si.c 1.24 2008/03/01 12:02:01 kls Exp $
  *                                                                         *
  ***************************************************************************/
 
@@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ bool SetSystemCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable) {
 // and length are adjusted accordingly.
 static const char *getCharacterTable(const unsigned char *&buffer, int &length, bool *isSingleByte = NULL) {
    const char *cs = "ISO6937";
+   cs = "ISO-8859-9"; // Workaround for broadcaster stupidity: according to
+   // "ETSI EN 300 468" the default character set is ISO6937. But unfortunately some
+   // broadcasters actually use ISO-8859-9, but fail to correctly announce that.
    if (isSingleByte)
       *isSingleByte = false;
    if (length <= 0)