diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 01ff15e2..821e286c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2359,3 +2359,7 @@ Adrian Caval <anrxc@sysphere.org>
 
 Nan Feng <nfgx@21cn.com>
  for translating OSD texts to the Chinese language
+
+Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
+ for suggesting to not call FcFini() to avoid problems with older (broken) versions
+ of fontconfig
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index c65c4ac7..3f8f2dc1 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5779,6 +5779,8 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   "220 video SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 1.7.1; Fri May  2 16:17:10 2008; ISO-8859-1".
   This may be useful for instance for external tools that provide EPG data, so that
   they can correctly encode the strings.
+- No longer calling FcFini() to avoid problems with older (broken) versions of
+  fontconfig (suggested by Edgar Toernig).
 
 2008-05-02: Version 1.6.0-2
 
diff --git a/font.c b/font.c
index b458e890..f962a09c 100644
--- a/font.c
+++ b/font.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: font.c 1.25 2008/03/01 10:19:41 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: font.c 2.1 2008/05/02 16:16:51 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "font.h"
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ bool cFont::GetAvailableFontNames(cStringList *FontNames, bool Monospaced)
      FcFontSetDestroy(fontset);
      FcPatternDestroy(pat);
      FcObjectSetDestroy(os);
-     FcFini();
+     //FcFini(); // older versions of fontconfig are broken - and FcInit() can be called more than once
      FontNames->Sort();
      }
   return FontNames->Size() > 0;
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ cString cFont::GetFontFileName(const char *FontName)
         esyslog("ERROR: no usable font found for '%s'", FontName);
      FcPatternDestroy(pat);
      free(fn);
-     FcFini();
+     //FcFini(); // older versions of fontconfig are broken - and FcInit() can be called more than once
      }
   return FontFileName;
 }