[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2491: epg encoding is ISO-8859-6 is it possible to display

Janne Grunau janne-mythtv at grunau.be
Thu Sep 28 18:27:06 UTC 2006


On Thursday 28 September 2006 15:40, MythTV wrote:
> #2491: epg encoding is ISO-8859-6 is it possible to display
>
>  I'm having a problem displaying EPG in Arabic. the EPG encoding
> coming from showtime network is ISO-8859-6 (arabic encoding)

Are you sure it is correctly declared as ISO-8859-6? Some german TV 
channels don't declare their texts as ISO-8859-1 but use this encoding 
anyway.

> and the sql database is set to UTF-8.

This might be a part of the problem.

> is there a way to convert the text from 
> iso-8859-6 to UTF-8 before inserting to the database.

This is done. We use the database just as transparent byte storage. ie. 
we write the raw UTF-8 data to the database.

Janne


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