[mythtv-users] Displaying UTF8 characters

Daniel Sangenberg daniel at sangenberg.se
Sat Feb 14 12:02:09 EST 2004


Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
> On Friday 13 February 2004 16.15, Daniel Ahlberg wrote:
>
>> I'm having some trouble with the display of UTF8 characters in both
>> mythweb and mythtv. All the special characters in the Swedish
>> alphabet are looking weird and does not display correctly, this has
>> caused the scheduler to not to find every program I have sceduled.
>
> I think I've pinpointed the problem to mythfilldatabase using
> QT-3.3.0. I did some tests. If I manually inserted a converted string
> (echo едц | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 ) to the program table in the
> databae it shows up correctly, each char has been converted to two
> chars. But mythfilldatabse with QT-3.3.0 converts to three chars
> making it displaying raw utf8 in both windows and linux browsers.
> Going back to QT-3.2.3 make mythfilldatabse only insert two chars
> correctly.

I can confirm this to, do you know if is a bug in QT or is it just a
compability problem with myth ?

-- 
Daniel




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