[vdr] Re: VDR update channels.conf and then fail to read it back

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

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
> Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > tho68@ssisrl.com wrote:
> >
> >> VDR does not start when the channels.conf contain this auto-inserted row
> >>
> >> ESP
> >> Czech:12558:vC34:S13.0E:27500:2577:2582=l::2578:500,604,100:9360:319:9200:0
> >>
> >
> >                                                ^
> >
> > Try removing the extra ':' here. Maybe this channel is sending "funny"
> > language codes and that's fooling vdr? I say this because I have a
> > different but equally funny language code for this channel (don't know
> > if/when it was auto-updated, though):
> >
> > ESP
> > Czech;ESP:12558:vC34:S13.0E:27500:2577:2582=6X^Z:2578:500,604,100:9360:319:9200:0
> 
> Well, I just tuned to that transponder to let vdr autoupdate and it
> happened the same: the language code is saved as "Čl:" so it renders
> channels.conf unparseable. I'd say the ':' should be replaced by a '|'
> (like it's done for the channel name) or it should be ignored.

Apparently that broadcaster doesn't know how to transmit correct data.
I'll implement a check to make VDR ignore any language codes that do
not consist of "normal" characters.

Klaus