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

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

"Jörg Knitter" wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > If I ever install a Linux distro that has UTF-8 as default, I'll probably
> > do the same ;-)
> 
> If I see it correctly, SuSE 9.1 also seems to use UTF-8 - at least this is
> set per default in the Language Settings of YaST.

It would seem so - and I find that a major PITA!

> Is this the reason why
> recordings made with 1.2.6 on SuSE 9.0 that contain umlauts are displayed
> wrong on VDR 1.3.10 and SuSE 9.1?

That may well be. I'm afraid we're going to have to suffer from a whole
plethora of problems (not only VDR related) with this UTF-8 stuff. For
instance, I'm receiving an increasing number of emails where the German umlauts
are just junk characters (actually a single umlaut is represented by two
characters, so I assume the sender was using UTF-8 - but I am NOT).
Well, after we have lost orthography due to a completely silly and unnecessary
reformation a few years ago, I guess we can live happily without the umlauts,
too. If I get a text that reads something like "Hätte möglicherweise genügend Zeit"
it's not too hard to just guess the umlauts...

> Additionally, recording a show with
> umlauts in the title name also did not work yesterday.
> Nevertheless, I had no segfaults here.

I suggest turning off UTF-8 on a VDR system. It's just not necessary.

Klaus