Carsten Koch wrote: > Hi, > > I found the following code in epg.c lines 633-636: > > // VDR can't usefully handle newline characters in the title and shortText of EPG > // data, so let's always convert them to blanks (independent of the setting of EPGBugfixLevel): > strreplace(title, '\n', ' '); > strreplace(shortText, '\n', ' '); > > AFAIK, VDR _can_ handle newlines in the title and shortText, > as long as they are represented as '|'. > So I wonder if it would not be an improvement to change > the above code into > > // Change newline characters into '|', which will be displayed as newline. > strreplace(title, '\n', '|'); > strreplace(shortText, '\n', '|'); By "VDR can't usefully handle newline characters in the title and shortText" I meant that the title and short text are always used in a "single line" context. There's no point in having newlines in there. Klaus
