[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.17 - release candidate 2

[Malte Schröder]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:10:59 +0100
Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger at cadsoft.de> wrote:

> On 03/04/08 21:26, Ales Jurik wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 of March 2008, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >> - Rendering the non-breaking space symbol as a blank (thanks to Tobias
> >> Grimm). - Changed the default character set for SI data from ISO6937 (as
> >> required by the DVB standard ETSI EN 300 468) to ISO-8859-9, in order to
> >> work around the stupidity of some providers, who actually use ISO-8859-9,
> >> but fail to correctly announce that.
> > 
> > Hi Klaus,
> > 
> > this change is preventing to use vdr for all Czech/Slovak satellite providers 
> > as they broadcast epg in ISO6937 (ok, UPC at 19.2E with some minor errors). 
> 
> This was exactly what I was afraid of - now the broadcasts that actually
> do follow the standards are broken.
> 
> Please try the attached patch. With this the default is ISO6937 again,
> and can be overridden by setting the environment variable VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE.
> 
> Users in Germany should please test this, too, and do an
> 
> export VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE=ISO-8859-9
> 
> before starting VDR.
> 
> Klaus

It seems to me as if we would need a per-channel setting for this ...


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