[mythtv] mysql-related Question for a contrib-Script

[Carl Reynolds]

Peter Kornhuld wrote:

>Hello,
>
>we wrote a skript for contrib (attached). It's aim is to merge the 
>informations from Mythtv-Database to an file and adjusts the Database to 
>point to the new file.
>
>...
>
>
>We search a way to do the mysql-query so that it results in Grasgeflüster not 
>in GrasgeflÃŒster. (Or another way to solve this problem). Please give us a 
>hint.
>
>  
>
I'm not sure about this, but I believe the problem you are having is 
that Myth writes and read its data in UTF-8. I am not aware of a way to 
write UTF-8 to MySQL using a shell script. You might want to write your 
script in Perl which does understand UTF-8.



Carl.