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