I've complied a new version of VDR. Am running FC3 and executed the following just as a test : [root@nzbaxters vdr-1.3.21test]# cat $LANG en_GB.iso8859-1 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 export LC_CTYPE="en_GB@euro" ulimit -Sc1000000000 ./vdr vdr: please turn off UTF-8 before starting VDR Is UTF-8 being referenced somewhere else? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20050220/8cda5b30/attachment.html