[mythtv-users] Character encoding problem in UK Radio Times XML data

[mythtv at varga.co.uk]

>> I'm noticing that I keep getting 'Æ' characters in Myth where I guess
>> RT is supplying 'proper' quote characters.  I'm also guessing that
>> this is an encoding issue;  my FC3 is running UTF-8, and I suppose RT
>> is using 'Doze Latin1.
>>
>> Is everyone else using RT XML getting this, or have I got something I
>> can fix?  Or can I work around it anyway?
>
> I checked one of the XML files in Firefox and it reckons it's
> ISO-8859-1. If you don't want to change to use the Latin character set,
> you could run tv_grab_uk_rt manually to produce the XML files, then run
> them through a script to replace the 'Æ' with a ". Finally run
> mythfilldatabase to import the data into Myth.
>
> Probably an easier solution out there - have you tried temp changing to
> 8859-1 to see if the problem disappears?

It's not just you, I'm getting it too in KnoppMyth...

Noob moment-
How do I change to 8859-1?
Or
I can put the script to gether and cron it, but what's the best way to
change a char in an XML file?

Cheers,
Lee