Special german chars (Umlaute)

[Lutz]

Hi,
I have the problem that the special german chars like ÄÜÖ etc. do not show up right. Eg the "ä" shows up as "ä", not looking very nice...
The original VDR-OSD is OK, also the view in the live-plugin, just the Vomp/MVP makes probs.
I already tried different codepages on the server, but all the same.
Any hints?

Cheers,
Lutz

[torsten]

Hi,

it seems that you're using UTF-8 encoding. With vdr it is usable since 1.5.xx. VOMP uses like (most) earlier vdr version latin-1 encoding.

Greetings

Torsten

[MarkC]

Lutz, are you using the 0.2.7 release or the latest code from CVS? If you're using 0.2.7 I can't see how this can happen because all the translations are compiled into VOMP: the set-up of VDR shouldn't make any difference.

If you're using the CVS code, with language files loaded from the VDR server, have you edited the German l10n file (main-de) and perhaps saved it as Unicode by mistake? You could try downloading the original file again from the sticky thread "New I18n system in CVS".

[avvdr]

Does this happen in the mediaplayer?
There this problem is definitely still not solved if you have e.g. UTF8 in your filesystem.
Still a job for the future (would need some extra adding of converted display names on the server - already foreseen but still not there...)
In the moment only 3 alternatives:
1. no UTF8 in filesystem
2. live with the garbage 
3. no files with non ASCII names 

Regards
Andreas

[Lutz]

Hello, and thanks for your replies.
I'm using the official 0.2.7 release (Tobis Repository), and theese errors only take place in the epg-texts. If there are any "umlaute" in the menu etc, they are displayed correct.
Lutz

[hondansx]

You can change your environment by adding this things to your vdr startscript maybe runvdr or something else:

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export LANG=de_DE
export LANGUAGE=de_DE
export LC_ALL=de_DE

This did it for me.

Bye Alex

[Lutz]

I have finally worked it out for me - I've changed /etc/environment to ISO-8859-15 instead of UTF-8...
Lutz

[Schnurps]

I have the same problem with umlauts (äöüß) in the EPG with VOMP. With the recordings and directories is everything fine, it just occures with the EPG.

I tested the different solutions written in this thread, but so far I had no success... any more ideas? - I am using VDR 1.6 with VOMP 0.3.

Schnurps

[hondansx]

I have the same problem with umlauts (äöüß) in the EPG with VOMP. With the recordings and directories is everything fine, it just occures with the EPG.

I tested the different solutions written in this thread, but so far I had no success... any more ideas? - I am using VDR 1.6 with VOMP 0.3.

Schnurps

Note:
If you change your environment, you have to delete the epg.data file.

Bye,
Walter

[Schnurps]

Could you tell me exactly what to write in the environment-file?
At the moment it is:

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LANG= "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15"
LANGUAGE= "de_DE"


Even after deleting the egp.data-file i am still having this problem...

[hondansx]

Could you tell me exactly what to write in the environment-file?
At the moment it is:

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LANG= "de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15"
LANGUAGE= "de_DE"


Even after deleting the egp.data-file i am still having this problem...

'LC_ALL=de_DE' should do the trick.

Bye,
Walter

[Schnurps]

Thank you, now the EPG is shown correctly! :-)))