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| author | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2004-06-12 10:17:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2004-06-12 10:17:20 +0200 |
| commit | 0e951afc2b8966039177f60b413bc1df245fcbaa (patch) | |
| tree | 51bb5ad6291b54236c3562902dbe3dc4c7bad51a /INSTALL | |
| parent | e199411a288d2dc18c7a42ff56064695fcb4b3c6 (diff) | |
| download | vdr-0e951afc2b8966039177f60b413bc1df245fcbaa.tar.gz vdr-0e951afc2b8966039177f60b413bc1df245fcbaa.tar.bz2 | |
Checking for UTF-8 at program start
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@@ -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 +14,14 @@ 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. + Compiling and running the program: ---------------------------------- |