On 05/11/2007 09:25 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 05/10/07 20:04, Udo Richter wrote: >>> ... >>> VDR development would speed up, if Klaus would delegate more work to >>> other talented coders, and doing more review instead of coding most of >>> it himself. >> Well, right now I'm dealing with the UTF-8 stuff, which is something >> I myself don't need at all. But unfortunately the patch(es) for this >> can't just be applied as it, because from what I've seen so far there >> it is assumed that the whole program is totally going UTF-8 - which it >> is *not*. I still want to be able to run it on a pure and clean iso8859-1 >> system. So I have to painstakingly go through the whole thing and take care >> that it only does UTF-8 if so requested - and that's a lot more work than just >> applying a patch... > > What's wrong with vdr using UTF-8 internally if it makes the code simpler? > Offhand I could only imagine two places where using a different external > encoding would be required and that's file names and tty i/o. Stuff like > epg.data and svdrp should better use UTF-8 as you don't need to add extra meta > data options to specify the encoding. It's very simple: I don't like it! The two languages I can handle can be perfectly well represented with iso8859-1, so I just don't want to have to go through all the hassle with UTF-8. To me, a character is a character is a byte is a byte. Period. Now, I do see that there are people out there who can't represent their language with single byte character sets, or want to be able to handle more languages than a single character set can cope with, so I am going to make VDR able to handle UTF-8. But only in a way that allows (at least) me to completely turn this stuff off. Whenever I install a new version of SUSE Linux, the first this I always do is turn off UTF-8. I just don't want it and don't need it. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
