[vdr] Re: vdr and the Euro-sign

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@gmx.de>]

hm@seneca.muc.de wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> > hm@seneca.muc.de wrote:
> > > Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Just change the "iso8859-1" entry in VDR/i18n.c for German
> > >>to "iso8859-15". Let me know if this fixes the problem and I'll
> > >>put that in the official VDR source.
> > > 
> > > That's a perfect candidate for an OSD configurable option IMHO. Not
> > > everybody compiles the source themselves. :-) 
> 
> > Why in the world should this be a configurable option?!?!
> 
> Think about pure binary distributions like LinVDR or the copy on SUSE
> Linux. No end user is going to / able to recompile anything. But they
> are in different countries. A user in Russia for example will not be happy
> with 8859-15. 

*whisper* UTF-8 is suitable for all languages

cu
Ludwig

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