Added a note about 'iocharset=utf8' to the INSTALL file

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Klaus Schmidinger 2004-06-19 10:15:46 +02:00
parent 667643ec23
commit e610c1a01b
3 changed files with 16 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -1043,3 +1043,6 @@ Martin Dauskardt <md001@gmx.de>
Maynard Cedric <maynard.cedric@wanadoo.fr>
for reporting a problem in handling the color button texts in cMenuEditStrItem
Jörg Knitter <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>
for reporting a problem in case the video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8"

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HISTORY
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@ -2896,14 +2896,18 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
2004-06-19: Version 1.3.11
- In order to avoid problems on NPTL systems, VDR now checks for the presence
of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to do
of NPTL at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to do
'export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1' before starting VDR.
- Revisited the "Fixed missing audio after replaying a DVD" change because it
introduced a sound disturbance when switching between channels on the same
transponder (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
- In order to avoid problems on UTF-8 systems, VDR now checks for the presence
of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exists and tells the user to turn off
UTF-8 before starting VDR.
of UTF-8 at program start, and if it is, exits and tells the user to turn off
UTF-8 before starting VDR (thanks to Ludwig Nussel for pointing out a problem
with systems that are set to use UTF-8). There are also problems in case the
video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8" (thanks to Jörg Knitter for
reporting this one).
Please also read the "IMPORTANT NOTES" section in the INSTALL file!
- Some changes to the SPU decoder interface (thanks to Sven Goethel).
- Some improvements in cOsd creation (thanks to some suggestions by Jouni Karvo).
- Fixed calculating the OSD width and height (thanks to Olaf Henkel for reporting

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@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ $LANG or $LC_CTYPE environment variable, and if it contains something
like "de_DE.UTF-8", make sure you set it to something like "de_DE.iso8859-1"
or whatever single byte character mode you want. If you run VDR with
UTF-8 enabled, it may crash in case it encounters EPG or channel data
that contains non-7-bit ASCII characters.
that contains non-7-bit ASCII characters. Another problem may occur if
you have mounted your video partition with "iocharset=utf8". In that case
recordings that contain umlauts or other non-seven-bit ASCII characters
may be displayed wrong, or not at all. Please make sure you mount your
video partition with "iocharset=iso8859-1" or whatever single byte character
mode you want.
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