[vdr] Re: [PATCH] fix segfaults because of channels with umlauts

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> > I don't see why my system should use UTF-8. I am German, all right, but iso8859-1
> > works just fine for me
> 
> I doubt it: last I checked Germany was in the euro zone, and iso8859-1
> doesn't have an ? symbol. Maybe you mean iso8859-15 ? ;-)

Don't get me started with that Euro! I still don't understand why there
had to be a special symbol for that - after all, there was no symbol for
the DM either. And if you want to make sure an amount stated will be clear
to the reader, you better use EUR instead of a symbol that you can't
be 100% certain will be displayed correctly (see above, the '?').

Oh, and yes, any iso8859-X that has the German umlauts at the proper
index will do fine.

> (btw: Linux is a multiple _concurrent_ users systems. If all of them
> share the same character set, then there's no problem using iso8859-x,
> otherwise utf is the only available option. The problem is that current
> implementations of utf8 systems just plain suck, and the first thing I
> do is remove all traces of utf8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, but that's
> because all the locales I use share the same charset).

If I ever install a Linux distro that has UTF-8 as default, I'll probably
do the same ;-)

Klaus