BIDI support now checks at runtime whether the system runs with UTF-8

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -2812,3 +2812,5 @@ Dominic Evans <oldmanuk@gmail.com>
 Torsten Lang <info@torstenlang.de>
  for reporting a problem with newline characters in stream component descriptions
  of EPG data from BSkyB's "MTV MUSIC"
+ for suggesting to make BIDI support check at runtime whether the system runs with
+ UTF-8

HISTORY

@@ -6781,7 +6781,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Replaced all calls to sleep() with cCondWait::SleepMs() (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
 - Fixed a crash with malformed SI data (patch from vdr-portal).
 
-2012-01-11: Version 1.7.23
+2012-01-12: Version 1.7.23
 
 - Removed the '.pl' suffix from svdrpsend.pl (sorry, I missed that one).
 - Fixed bonding more than two devices.
@@ -6818,3 +6818,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   TS packets, e.g. when switching channels.
 - Fixed the SVDRP command CLRE for a single channel in case there are events
   that have a timer (thanks to Timo Eskola).
+- BIDI support now checks at runtime whether the system runs with UTF-8 (suggested
+  by Torsten Lang).

font.c

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * BiDi support by Osama Alrawab <alrawab@hotmail.com> @2008 Tripoli-Libya.
  *
- * $Id: font.c 2.8 2011/03/28 16:29:51 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: font.c 2.9 2012/01/13 09:43:22 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "font.h"
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ cString cFont::GetFontFileName(const char *FontName)
 #ifdef BIDI
 cString cFont::Bidi(const char *Ltr)
 {
+  if (cCharSetConv::SystemCharacterTable()) { // bidi requires UTF-8
      fribidi_set_mirroring(true);
      fribidi_set_reorder_nsm(false);
      FriBidiCharSet fribidiCharset = FRIBIDI_CHAR_SET_UTF8;
@@ -527,6 +528,7 @@ cString cFont::Bidi(const char *Ltr)
      free(Visual);
      if (ok)
         return cString(Rtl, true);
+     }
   return cString(Ltr);
 }
 #endif