Even if vdr doesn't get along with UTF-8 locales, there's no reason why the
man pages shouldn't be properly displayable in them. The attached patch fixes
this by escaping hyphens in option names and replacing non-ASCII characters
with equivalent macros.
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diff -urNad vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1 /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1
--- vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1 2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
+++ /tmp/dpep.0MmCue/vdr-1.3.15/vdr.1 2004-11-02 01:43:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
.\"
.TH vdr 1 "1 June 2003" "1.2.0" "Video Disk Recorder"
.SH NAME
-vdr - the Video Disk Recorder
+vdr \- the Video Disk Recorder
...
-\fBDescription.ger = Blautöne\fR
+\fBDescription.ger = Blaut\(:one\fR