diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 41a5caeb..6bf281a4 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5723,8 +5723,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   'Back' key.
 - Resetting a timer's 'pending' flag when it has ended.
 
-2008-03-18: Version 1.5.19
+2008-03-22: Version 1.5.19
 
 - Updated the Croatian language texts (thanks to Adrian Caval).
 - Added Chinese language texts (thanks to Nan Feng).
 - Updated the Portuguese language texts.
+- Added a note about VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE to the INSTALL file.
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index fd5983c5..f61cb3bb 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -117,6 +117,16 @@ in English.
 Note that for VDR's internationalized texts to work, the LANG environment
 variable must be set to a valid locale!
 
+Workaround for providers not encoding their EPG data correctly
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+According to "ETSI EN 300 468" the default character set fo SI data is
+ISO6937. But unfortunately some broadcasters actually use ISO-8859-9 or
+other encodings, but fail to correctly announce that.
+Users who want to set the default character set to something different can
+do this by setting the environment variable VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE to something
+like ISO-8859-9.
+
 Automatic restart in case of hangups:
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