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

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

Nicolas Huillard wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > "Dr. Werner Fink" wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:47:31PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >>
> >>>"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!
> >>
> >>Please explain _why_ do you think so?  What is wrong
> >>on text like this one:
> >>
> >>Arabic اŲ?ØģŲ?اŲ? ØđŲ?ŲSŲfŲ?
> >>Greek (Î*ÎŧÎŧÎ·Î―ÎđΚΎ) Î?ÎĩÎđÎŽ ÏfÎąÏ,
> >>Hebrew ŨĐŨ?ÖļŨ?Ũ*ÖđŨ?
> >>Japanese (æ-Ĩæ?ŽčŠ?) ã??ã,?ã?Ŧã?Ąã?Ŋ, ï―šïū?ïū?ïū?ïūS
> >>Chinese (äļ­æ-?,æ?Ūé?sčŊ?,æą?čŊ­) ä― åĨ―
> >>Cantonese (įēĩčŠ?,åŧĢæ?ąčĐą) æ-Đæ?Ļ, ä― åĨ―
> >>
> >>... no problem to read this within an UTF-8 locale ;^)
> >>
> >>        Werner
> >
> >
> > Wow, I didn't know you speak that many languages.
> >
> > I for one need only German and English.
> 
> As a developper, you need to take care of that for your users...
> I think most problems with UTF-8 come from the fact that many
> developpers think it's too complicated, not usefull, etc. and then use
> UTF-8 in a half manner, even with wrong code, etc. That lead to
> effectively complicated interoperation.
> WRT VDR, the implications are :
> * if EPG or channel names come with no character coding specification,
> it won't be easy at to do any character transocding...
> * the great localisation effort of VDR will bring all sorts of encoding
> problems : there will actually be files in VDR that will have many
> encodings at once
> * taking UTF-8 into account can be as simple as warning the user it's
> not supported, and set a well-defined LOCALE in the runvdr script : that
> way, the main vdr program won't have to transcode anything...

That's exactly what VDR 1.3.11 will do ;-)

Klaus