diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
index 8fb4af986f..3ab1097704 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/bin/vdr.start
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ if [ "$ENABLE_EXTERNAL_RECCMD" == "true" ] ; then
   fi
 fi
 
+if [ "$ENABLE_CHARSET_OVERRIDE" == "true" ] ; then
+  if [ ! -z "$CHARSET_OVERRIDE_STR" ] ; then
+    VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE="$CHARSET_OVERRIDE_STR"
+  fi
+fi
+
 # keep softcam first
 if [ "$ENABLE_SOFTCAM" == "true" ] ; then
   VDR_ARG="$VDR_ARG -P dvbapi"
@@ -163,4 +169,4 @@ if [ "$WAIT_FOR_FEINIT" == "true" ] ; then
 fi
 
 fix_config
-eval LANG=en_US.UTF-8 exec vdr.bin $VDR_ARG
+eval LANG=en_US.UTF-8 VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE="$VDR_CHARSET_OVERRIDE" exec vdr.bin $VDR_ARG
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
index 52d72892c2..bd44b06dc1 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 	<string id="1021">Unload DVB mudules before suspend</string>
 	<string id="1022">Wait for frontend initialization</string>
 	<string id="1023">Number of adapters to wait for</string>
+	<string id="1024">Enable charset override</string>
+	<string id="1025">- charset</string>
 	<string id="1030">Plugin Configuration</string>
 	<string id="1031">Enable plugin: iptv</string>
 	<string id="1032">Enable plugin: streamdev-client</string>
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/settings.xml b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/settings.xml
index b432e5fdee..9101fe6def 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/settings.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/resources/settings.xml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 		<setting id="WAIT_FOR_FEINIT" type="bool" label="1022" default="false" />
 		<setting id="NUM_ADAPTERS" type="number" label="1023" default="1" enable="eq(-1,true)" />
 		<setting id="REMOVE_MODULES" type="text" label="1021" values="" default=""/>
+		<setting id="ENABLE_CHARSET_OVERRIDE" type="bool" label="1024" default="false" />
+		<setting id="CHARSET_OVERRIDE_STR" type="text" label="1025" visible="!eq(-1,false)" default="" />
     </category>
     <category label="1002">
 		<setting label="1051" type="lsep"/>
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/settings-default.xml b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/settings-default.xml
index b554c412e6..62a2e4e2b8 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/settings-default.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/vdr-addon/source/settings-default.xml
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@
     <setting id="ENABLE_SATIP" value="false" />
     <setting id="ENABLE_EXTERNAL_RECCMD" value="false" />
     <setting id="EXTERNAL_RECCMD_PATH" value="" />
+    <setting id="ENABLE_CHARSET_OVERRIDE" value="false" />
+    <setting id="CHARSET_OVERRIDE_STR" value="" />
 </settings>