Answering myself. I've changed script to:

console output respawn script LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 export LANG

/ego/vdr/_runvdr end script

and everyting works now

Hi!

I'm looking how to solve such issue: when I run runvdr script in terminal window of my Ubuntu 7.10 (with russian UTF8 locale), OSD shows correct russian EPG, channel lists, etc... But when I run vdr using upstart's script:

exec /ego/vdr/_runvdr console output respawn

the only language I could see is english, russian texts are replaced with ???????

May be anyone could advice right direction to move?

Thanks!