Harald Milz wrote:
Wolfgang Rohdewald wolfgang@rohdewald.de wrote:
On Mittwoch 20 Juli 2005 00:00, Harald Milz wrote:
So at the end of the day, there's no way around a proper charset conversion... is there anything I can do to help?
Alexander Riedel announced UTF-8 Patch 0.0.3 on May 12 in this list.
Mmmm, yes, this patch is against 1.3.24, and applying it to 1.3.27 says,
seneca:/usr/local/src/vdr/VDR # patch -p0 --dry-run < ../vdr-utf8-0.0.3.patch-0001.bin patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
I've rediffed the patch against 1.3.25 some time ago. Apparently it still applies to 1.3.27. I didn't check whether it actually works though. You can find it here: http://www.suse.de/~lnussel/vdr/ (May take some time until the web server gets synced).
It's also in the vdr13 rpm packages on the ftp server. You have to rebuild the src.rpm using --with freetype to enable it though.
It seems nobody cares about this functionality when it was against 1.3.24 and we're now working on 1.3.28. Will 1.3.28 be UTF-8 capable? Klaus, please. I understand you get lots of patches solving only minor and local problems but this is about international use of vdr and IMHO important enough.
The changes required for true UTF-8 support are not trivial. The patch from Alexander is just a start. Something for post-1.4 IMHO.
cu Ludwig