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@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ in English.
Note that for VDR's internationalized texts to work, the LANG environment
variable must be set to a valid locale!
+Workaround for providers not encoding their EPG data correctly
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+According to "ETSI EN 300 468" the default character set fo SI data is
+ISO6937. But unfortunately some broadcasters actually use ISO-8859-9 or
+other encodings, but fail to correctly announce that.
+Users who want to set the default character set to something different can
+do this by setting the environment variable VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE to something
+like ISO-8859-9.
+
Automatic restart in case of hangups:
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