diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 7dd1ed7e..38bc7734 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -664,6 +664,8 @@ Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
  DVB cards
  for improving the firmware of FF DVB cards to allow getting the current STC value
  even in trick modes
+ for pointing out a problem with the decimal point of the F record in the info file of
+ a recording
 
 Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
  for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0df948e1..2fb8ca75 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6021,3 +6021,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed the 'VideoOnly' condition in the PlayPes() and PlayTs() calls in
   cDvbPlayer::Action() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
 - cDevice::PlayTs() now plays as many TS packets as possible in one call.
+- Making sure any floating point numbers written use a decimal point (thanks to
+  Oliver Endriss for pointing out a problem with the F record in the info file of
+  a recording).
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index 5f2f88e3..36942a51 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 2.6 2009/03/27 15:54:05 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 2.7 2009/04/05 13:21:46 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
      isyslog("codeset is '%s' - %s", CodeSet, known ? "known" : "unknown");
      cCharSetConv::SetSystemCharacterTable(CodeSet);
      }
+  setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); // makes sure any floating point numbers written use a decimal point
 
   // Initialize internationalization: