Checking for UTF-8 at program start

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Klaus Schmidinger
2004-06-12 10:17:20 +02:00
parent e199411a28
commit 0e951afc2b
4 changed files with 25 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Installation of the Video Disk Recorder
Version 1.3
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
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VDR currently doesn't work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library").
Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ Either don't use NPTL, or set the environment variable
before running VDR.
Also, please make sure your environment is NOT set to use UTF-8 or
any other multibyte character representation. Check the value of your
$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.
Compiling and running the program:
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