Modified setting system and override character tables

CONTRIBUTORS

@@ -3591,6 +3591,8 @@ Helmut Binder <cco@aon.at>
  for adding the language code for Bulgarian
  for a patch that was used as a base for fixing handling multi part ExtendedEventDescriptors
  where only the first part contains information about the character table
+ for suggesting to check and report whether the given value is valid when setting the
+ override character table
 
 Ulrich Eckhardt <uli@uli-eckhardt.de>
  for reporting a problem with shutdown after user inactivity in case a plugin is

HISTORY

@@ -9420,7 +9420,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed handling the S2SatelliteDeliverySystemDescriptor for transponders broadcasting
   in "backwards compatibility mode" according to ETSI EN 300 468 (thanks to Onur Sentürk).
 
-2020-05-14:
+2020-05-15:
 
 - Fixed moving channels between number groups in SVDRP's MOVC command and the Channels
   menu, in case a channel is moved to a higher number and into a numbered group
@@ -9434,3 +9434,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added the language code for Bulgarian (thanks to Helmut Binder).
 - Fixed handling multi part ExtendedEventDescriptors where only the first part
   contains information about the character table (based on a patch from Helmut Binder).
+- When setting the system character table, it is no longer checked against the known
+  entries that are hard coded in libsi/si.c, but rather given to iconv_open() and the
+  result of that call is used to check whether the given name is valid.
+- Checking whether the system character table is "single byte" is now done by checking
+  the result of a sample call to iconv().
+- Setting the override character table now checks and reports whether the given value
+  is valid (suggested by Helmut Binder).

libsi/si.c

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- *   $Id: si.c 4.1 2020/05/14 21:21:03 kls Exp $
+ *   $Id: si.c 4.2 2020/05/15 11:31:40 kls Exp $
  *                                                                         *
  ***************************************************************************/
 
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static const char *CharacterTables2[] = {
 
 #define NumEntries(Table) (sizeof(Table) / sizeof(char *))
 
-static const char *SystemCharacterTable = NULL;
+static char *SystemCharacterTable = NULL;
 bool SystemCharacterTableIsSingleByte = true;
 
 bool systemCharacterTableIsSingleByte(void)
@@ -321,33 +321,43 @@ bool systemCharacterTableIsSingleByte(void)
 
 static char *OverrideCharacterTable = NULL;
 
-void SetOverrideCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable)
+bool SetOverrideCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable)
 {
   free(OverrideCharacterTable);
   OverrideCharacterTable = CharacterTable ? strdup(CharacterTable) : NULL;
+   if (OverrideCharacterTable) {
+      // Check whether the character table is known:
+      iconv_t cd = iconv_open(SystemCharacterTable, OverrideCharacterTable);
+      if (cd != (iconv_t)-1) {
+         iconv_close(cd);
+         return true;
+      }
+   }
+   return false;
 }
 
 bool SetSystemCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable) {
-   if (CharacterTable) {
-      for (unsigned int i = 0; i < NumEntries(CharacterTables1); i++) {
-         if (CharacterTables1[i] && strcasecmp(CharacterTable, CharacterTables1[i]) == 0) {
-            SystemCharacterTable = CharacterTables1[i];
-            SystemCharacterTableIsSingleByte = i <= SingleByteLimit;
-            return true;
-         }
-      }
-      for (unsigned int i = 0; i < NumEntries(CharacterTables2); i++) {
-         if (CharacterTables2[i] && strcasecmp(CharacterTable, CharacterTables2[i]) == 0) {
-            SystemCharacterTable = CharacterTables2[i];
+   free(SystemCharacterTable);
+   SystemCharacterTable = CharacterTable ? strdup(CharacterTable) : NULL;
    SystemCharacterTableIsSingleByte = true;
+   if (SystemCharacterTable) {
+      // Check whether the character table is known and "single byte":
+      char a[] = "ä";
+      char *pa = a;
+      char b[10];
+      char *pb = b;
+      size_t la = strlen(a);
+      size_t lb = sizeof(b);
+      iconv_t cd = iconv_open(SystemCharacterTable, "ISO-8859-1");
+      if (cd != (iconv_t)-1) {
+         if (iconv(cd, &pa, &la, &pb, &lb) != size_t(-1)) {
+            *pb = 0;
+            SystemCharacterTableIsSingleByte = strlen(b) == 1;
+         }
+         iconv_close(cd);
          return true;
       }
    }
-   } else {
-      SystemCharacterTable = NULL;
-      SystemCharacterTableIsSingleByte = true;
-      return true;
-   }
    return false;
 }
 

libsi/si.h

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
  *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
  *                                                                         *
- *   $Id: si.h 4.1 2020/05/14 21:21:03 kls Exp $
+ *   $Id: si.h 4.2 2020/05/15 11:31:40 kls Exp $
  *                                                                         *
  ***************************************************************************/
 
@@ -527,7 +527,9 @@ protected:
 
 // Set the character table to use for strings that do not begin with a character
 // table indicator. Call with NULL to turn this off.
-void SetOverrideCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable);
+// Must be called *after* SetSystemCharacterTable()!
+// Returns true if the character table was recognized.
+bool SetOverrideCharacterTable(const char *CharacterTable);
 // Call this function to set the system character table. CharacterTable is a string
 // like "iso8859-15" or "utf-8" (case insensitive).
 // Returns true if the character table was recognized.

vdr.c

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.tvdr.de
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 4.31 2020/05/07 10:45:41 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 4.32 2020/05/15 11:31:40 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -726,8 +726,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
      isyslog("use of environment variable VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE (%s) is deprecated!", DeprecatedVdrCharsetOverride);
 #endif
   if (OverrideCharacterTable) {
-     isyslog("override character table is '%s'", OverrideCharacterTable);
-     SI::SetOverrideCharacterTable(OverrideCharacterTable);
+     bool known = SI::SetOverrideCharacterTable(OverrideCharacterTable);
+     isyslog("override character table is '%s' - %s", OverrideCharacterTable, known ? "known" : "unknown");
      }
 
   // Initialize internationalization: