[vdr] Re: vdr and the Euro-sign

["C.Y.M" <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>]

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> 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
Oh, please no. UTF-8 breaks all kinds of applications.