[vdr] Re: vdr and the Euro-sign

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

Pim Zandbergen wrote:
> > Oh, please no. UTF-8 breaks all kinds of applications.
> Yes, it takes an effort to be able to use UTF-8 internally and convert 
> input and output
> accordingly, but this is definitely the way to go. This is what every 
> linux app is supposed
> to do.
>
> Not supporting UTF-8 breaks things too; Linux apps are supposed to use 
> UTF-8 encoded
> filenames. For VDR, the video partition has to be mounted with iocharset 
> options.
> This option is not available on all filesystems (like ReiserFS) and is 
> even harder when
> the video spool is not on a separate partition.
>
> Pim
>
> PS no, I'm not volunteering to do the changes :-)
And I'm not accepting patches in that direction, either ;-)

Klaus