2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 17a19e0d..6b5d4b65 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5775,6 +5775,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   by broadcasters from the beginning.
 - Added missing description of the 'S' channel parameter to vdr.5 (reported by
   Reinhard Nissl).
+- The SVDRP signon message now indicates the character encoding in use, as in
+  "220 video SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 1.7.1; Fri May  2 16:17:10 2008; ISO-8859-1".
+  This may be useful for instance for external tools that provide EPG data, so that
+  they can correctly encode the strings.
 
 2008-04-19: Version 1.6.0-2
 
diff --git a/svdrp.c b/svdrp.c
index 4317535a..a9d09f3c 100644
--- a/svdrp.c
+++ b/svdrp.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * and interact with the Video Disk Recorder - or write a full featured
  * graphical interface that sits on top of an SVDRP connection.
  *
- * $Id: svdrp.c 1.109 2008/02/17 13:36:01 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: svdrp.c 2.1 2008/05/02 14:15:38 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "svdrp.h"
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ bool cSVDRP::Process(void)
         char buffer[BUFSIZ];
         gethostname(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
         time_t now = time(NULL);
-        Reply(220, "%s SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder %s; %s", buffer, VDRVERSION, *TimeToString(now));
+        Reply(220, "%s SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder %s; %s; %s", buffer, VDRVERSION, *TimeToString(now), cCharSetConv::SystemCharacterTable() ? cCharSetConv::SystemCharacterTable() : "UTF-8");
         }
      if (NewConnection)
         lastActivity = time(NULL);