[vdr] Re: [PATCH] fix segfaults because of channels with umlauts

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

"Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >
> > Well, there haven't been any "other errors" in years, its just that nasty
> > UTF-8 that some distributions now apparently have made the default. Personally
> > I don't see why my system should use UTF-8. I am German, all right, but iso8859-1
> > works just fine for me, so no need for the hassle with those two-byte characters.
> 
> Hmmm ... UTF-8 is the future even if you don't like it. Btw: I also
> do not like UTF-8 but nevertheless I've accepted that UTF-8 is the
> future and the way where Linux and all other UNICES will go.  You
> shouldn't miss the future ;^)

Well, as long as iso8859-X works for me, I'll leave it that way.
Not everything that people say is "the future" needs to be necessarily good.
My systems will be UTF-8-free as long as posible ;-)

> Beside this you may have a look into the manual page of iconv
> glibc library function (iconv - perform character set conversion).

That's a monster function I can gladly live without.

Klaus