Hi,
after moving to VDR 1.6 and a new Debian 2.6 based system I still need to play with locales. The System language I am using is English:
VDR-test: locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
Currently my locale is somehow not set correctly and runvdr cannot find anything in ./locale.
What I would like to know is, if I am using English EPG and German EPG, plus I want the OSD of VDR to appear in English. Is that possible, will all characters be displayed correctly? I also want vdr to output its logs in english, which is explained in the docs OK.
So how should VDR be setup for what I want?
Cheers Brian
Brian wrote:
Hi,
after moving to VDR 1.6 and a new Debian 2.6 based system I still need to play with locales. The System language I am using is English:
VDR-test: locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
Currently my locale is somehow not set correctly and runvdr cannot find anything in ./locale.
What I would like to know is, if I am using English EPG and German EPG, plus I want the OSD of VDR to appear in English. Is that possible, will all characters be displayed correctly? I also want vdr to output its logs in english, which is explained in the docs OK.
So how should VDR be setup for what I want?
Cheers Brian
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Just a short update about my tests.
I have added "-L /usr/local/src/VDR/locale" to runvdr, that didn't make any difference, if I get the error message from run vdr then it still says ./locale in that message. Not sure if that is important or not.
Anyway I have set
export LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 export LANG=en_GB.utf8
at the start of runvdr, and that got rid of the missing locales messages.
That gives me the following:
1. OSD is in English 2. VDRADMIN data is also in English 3. German EPG is shown correctly with all special characters that I have seen up to now (umläute etc.). 4. English EPG is shown, mostly correctly. But for example "Her's" is shown as "Her&apos.s". But, I get that info via xmltv2vdr, so I wonder if the problem is there instead of in vdr.
Cheers Brian
Brian wrote:
- English EPG is shown, mostly correctly. But for example "Her's" is shown as "Her&apos.s". But, I get that info via xmltv2vdr, so I wonder if the problem is there instead of in vdr.
That's most probably a problem of xmltv2vdr (or its input data). I don't think there's anything in VDR that would translate a perfectly good ASCII character into a broken HTML encoding. The apostrophe is at the same character position in ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8, so there's really nothing that could go wrong.
Maybe you can find that "Her&apos" in the xmltv input data.
Michael
Michael Mauch wrote:
Brian wrote:
- English EPG is shown, mostly correctly. But for example "Her's" is shown as "Her&apos.s". But, I get that info via xmltv2vdr, so I wonder if the problem is there instead of in vdr.
That's most probably a problem of xmltv2vdr (or its input data). I don't think there's anything in VDR that would translate a perfectly good ASCII character into a broken HTML encoding. The apostrophe is at the same character position in ASCII, Latin-1 and UTF-8, so there's really nothing that could go wrong.
Maybe you can find that "Her&apos" in the xmltv input data.
Michael
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Michael,
thats the way it turned out. Epg2timers collects the data and apparently the correct way to store an apostrophe in xml is as '. Xmltv2vdr just passed it on as it was. After investigating the code I found a method had been provided to translate strings in the input to other strings in the output and that solved it for me.
Thanks
Cheers Brian
Hi,
2008/6/29 Brian brian_dorling@t-online.de:
I have added "-L /usr/local/src/VDR/locale" to runvdr, that didn't make any difference, if I get the error message from run vdr then it still says ./locale in that message. Not sure if that is important or not.
Option -L provide a placement of Plugins For locales is option --localedir ....
Regards Oleg Roitburd
oleg roitburd wrote:
Hi,
2008/6/29 Brian brian_dorling@t-online.de:
I have added "-L /usr/local/src/VDR/locale" to runvdr, that didn't make any difference, if I get the error message from run vdr then it still says ./locale in that message. Not sure if that is important or not.
Option -L provide a placement of Plugins For locales is option --localedir ....
Regards Oleg Roitburd
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Oleg, thanks for pointing that out, I was sure I had read that -L and --localedir were the same.
Cheers Brian
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