gentoo-vdr-scripts, locales, UTF-8 and Scandinavian characters (umlauts): After getting VDR 1.5.5 working, one quite annoying problem was left: all non-7-bit characters were displayed as ?-marks, if using gentoo-vdr-scrips (which I'm quite dependant for the functionality they provide, but unfortunately made for <1.5.0 in mind). I found that in /usr/share/vdr/rcscripts/pre-start-45-utf8-check.sh all locales are reset to POSIX; however, this makes VDR 1.5.5 misbehave. I modified the script so that LC_ALL and LANG are set to fi_FI.UTF-8, and now everything works like a charm.
Well, we are still in discussion phase how gentoo-vdr-scripts should behave. Attached is some code we think could be almost ready for commiting to gentoo-vdr-scripts.
Fixed in newest script Version,
Please upgrade to gentoo-vdr-scripts-0.4.0