[mythtv] Problem with mythfilldatabase/QT

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:51 am, Scott Elliott wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out why I didn't get any schedule information
> for today (3/5).  I finally tracked it down by adding an error message
> to parseFile() in filldata.cpp.  It turns out that QDomDocument had a
> problem with the following entry in the listings:
>
>   <programme start="20030305133000 EST" stop="20030305140000 EST"
> channel="52 HGTV">
>     <title>Simply Quilts</title>
>     <sub-title>Wood Felt Appliqué</sub-title>
>     <desc>Wool-felt embellishments.</desc>
>     <category>How-to</category>
>   </programme>
>
> It didn't like the accent grave on the "e".  After I changed it to a
> plain "e", I was able to load it from the file.
>
> Looks like a QT bug (I'm using qt3.1.0 on gentoo), but I thought I'd
> mention it here, in case anyone else runs into it.

Probably more of an xmltv bug -- I'd imagine that the xml doc returned by 
xmltv is marked as encoded as utf-8, and that string is not legal utf-8, so 
it choked on it.

Isaac