Hi,
My VDR with utf-8 is working marvelously, except for a small cosmetic problem. The non-7-bit characters are not shown correctly on my LCD.
You might want to try Joachim Wilke's patched version of the lcdproc plugin.
http://www.joachim-wilke.de/?alias=vdr-patches
Afaik, he fixed that. (Didn't try it myself, yet, though.)
Regards,
Hanno