diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index e2555254..f703555c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2251,3 +2251,7 @@ Mario Ivankovits <mario@ops.co.at>
 
 István Füley <ifuley@tigercomp.ro>
  for translating OSD texts to the Hungarian language
+
+Jiri Dobry <jdobry@centrum.cz>
+ for reporting a bug in displaying weekday names in the Schedule menu if the system
+ uses UTF-8
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index db131d8a..446599da 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5554,3 +5554,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   programmer to write 'a || (b && c)', while everybody knows that '&&' links
   stronger than '||' (reported by Tobias Grimm).
 - Updated the Hungarian language texts (thanks to István Füley).
+- Fixed displaying weekday names in the Schedule menu if the system uses UTF-8
+  (reported by Jiri Dobry).
diff --git a/menu.c b/menu.c
index 93fe2581..b7ecf2a5 100644
--- a/menu.c
+++ b/menu.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 1.468 2008/01/13 12:43:09 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 1.469 2008/01/13 13:59:33 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -1059,12 +1059,13 @@ bool cMenuScheduleItem::Update(bool Force)
      char v = event->Vps() && (event->Vps() - event->StartTime()) ? 'V' : ' ';
      char r = event->SeenWithin(30) && event->IsRunning() ? '*' : ' ';
      const char *csn = channel ? channel->ShortName(true) : NULL;
+     cString eds = event->GetDateString();
      if (channel && withDate)
-        asprintf(&buffer, "%d\t%.*s\t%.*s\t%s\t%c%c%c\t%s", channel->Number(), Utf8SymChars(csn, 6), csn, 6, *event->GetDateString(), *event->GetTimeString(), t, v, r, event->Title());
+        asprintf(&buffer, "%d\t%.*s\t%.*s\t%s\t%c%c%c\t%s", channel->Number(), Utf8SymChars(csn, 6), csn, Utf8SymChars(eds, 6), *eds, *event->GetTimeString(), t, v, r, event->Title());
      else if (channel)
         asprintf(&buffer, "%d\t%.*s\t%s\t%c%c%c\t%s", channel->Number(), Utf8SymChars(csn, 6), csn, *event->GetTimeString(), t, v, r, event->Title());
      else
-        asprintf(&buffer, "%.*s\t%s\t%c%c%c\t%s", 6, *event->GetDateString(), *event->GetTimeString(), t, v, r, event->Title());
+        asprintf(&buffer, "%.*s\t%s\t%c%c%c\t%s", Utf8SymChars(eds, 6), *eds, *event->GetTimeString(), t, v, r, event->Title());
      SetText(buffer, false);
      result = true;
      }