[mythtv] How do I use an "&" in ui.xml?

[Leandro Dardini]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward Wildgoose" <Edward.Wildgoose at FRMHedge.com>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv] How do I use an "&" in ui.xml?


> > > I want to add a colour in the EPG for a category called "News & Arts",
but
> > > adding this into ui.xml causes something to choke (I don't get
anything
> > > drawn, just a blank screen).  Changing ui.xml to read &amp; means the
screen
> > > appears, but the category appears not to be matched.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions please?
>
> > What about escaping it, like \&
>
> Nope, I tried that.  I *think* the whole screen still fails to load if you
try this.  Looking at uitypes.cpp it is doing an exact match, so it seems
unlikely it will match unless it is an exact match, but I'm not quite sure
why the whole thing fails to load and parse with the "&" anyway...?
>
> Any other ideas?
>

Yes, use the UTF-8 code. Converting single character to UTF-8 is not always
simple, I usually use a small trick: google.

Simple search for the character you want to translate and then look at the
url google point, a simple hex->dec conversion and you are ready to use your
numeric keypad.

Leandro

PS
Uhm... google answer simply 0x26, this mean this character doesn't need
utf-8 conversion... sorry