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| author | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2010-09-19 12:36:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de> | 2010-09-19 12:36:07 +0200 |
| commit | ab0beb2ddbc30ac46290f4ecd63e78e9a26f3593 (patch) | |
| tree | 0152e66d3cc853eb465d7983b02714bd1daa4b7d /INSTALL | |
| parent | f1d4e6658269dc05d8ba86d8fb9c4a1571c63a64 (diff) | |
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Added support for languages that are written right-to-left1.7.16
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@@ -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 -------------------------------------------------------------- |