[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10209: Mythfrontend fails to find mysql.txt when the home directory path contains non-ASCII

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#10209: Mythfrontend fails to find mysql.txt when the home directory path contains
non-ASCII
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 Reporter:  Göran Uddeborg           |           Type:  Bug Report -
  <goeran@…>                         |  General
   Status:  new                      |       Priority:  minor
Milestone:  unknown                  |      Component:  MythTV - General
  Version:  0.24.1                   |       Severity:  medium
 Keywords:                           |  Ticket locked:  0
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 I have a standalone box running both frontend and backend.  That works
 fine.

 Now I'm trying to run mythfrontend from my regular user account on another
 machine.  The path to my home directory is /home/göran, where the
 o-diaeresis is UTF-8 encoded.

 I have to enter settings like language and country, database server etc.
 each time I start up mythfrontend.  In the log it also complains that it
 is unable to connect to the database, trying to connect to localhost
 rather than the box running the mythbackend and database servers (named
 pluto).  Using "strace" I found that mythfrontend tries to open a file
 under a path as if my home directory would have been encoded using
 ISO-8859-1 (or maybe ISO-8859-15):
 {{{
 5036  open("/home/g\366ran/.mythtv/mysql.txt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
 such file or directory)
 }}}
 It does not have the same problem finding other files, like config.xml:
 {{{
 5036  open("/home/g\303\266ran/.mythtv/config.xml", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =
 12
 }}}
 Dong a soft link from "g\366ran" to "g\303\266ran" seems to be a
 workaround.  I haven't tried too much, but the more basic things seem to
 work fine after having created it.

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