From e610c1a01b6796faeaa949e25410bbfa65f26002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:15:46 +0200 Subject: Added a note about 'iocharset=utf8' to the INSTALL file --- CONTRIBUTORS | 3 +++ HISTORY | 10 +++++++--- INSTALL | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS index 1e97120a..eccdb2af 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -1043,3 +1043,6 @@ Martin Dauskardt Maynard Cedric for reporting a problem in handling the color button texts in cMenuEditStrItem + +Jörg Knitter + for reporting a problem in case the video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8" diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index a1d5f192..842445a8 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -2896,14 +2896,18 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History 2004-06-19: Version 1.3.11 - In order to avoid problems on NPTL systems, VDR now checks for the presence - of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to do + of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to do 'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1' before starting VDR. - Revisited the "Fixed missing audio after replaying a DVD" change because it introduced a sound disturbance when switching between channels on the same transponder (thanks to Marco Schlüßler). - In order to avoid problems on UTF-8 systems, VDR now checks for the presence - of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to turn off - UTF-8 before starting VDR. + of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to turn off + UTF-8 before starting VDR (thanks to Ludwig Nussel for pointing out a problem + with systems that are set to use UTF-8). There are also problems in case the + video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8" (thanks to Jörg Knitter for + reporting this one). + Please also read the "IMPORTANT NOTES" section in the INSTALL file! - Some changes to the SPU decoder interface (thanks to Sven Goethel). - Some improvements in cOsd creation (thanks to some suggestions by Jouni Karvo). - Fixed calculating the OSD width and height (thanks to Olaf Henkel for reporting diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4eefa98b..f054d7ab 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ $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. +that contains non-7-bit ASCII characters. Another problem may occur if +you have mounted your video partition with "iocharset=utf8". In that case +recordings that contain umlauts or other non-seven-bit ASCII characters +may be displayed wrong, or not at all. Please make sure you mount your +video partition with "iocharset=iso8859-1" or whatever single byte character +mode you want. Compiling and running the program: ---------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3