[mythtv-users] XML grabber produce funny characters, trying to sed them

Mattias Holmlund mattias.holmlund at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 19:58:32 UTC 2007


On 4/18/07, Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx at telenet.be> wrote:
> hey,
>
> both XMLTV grabbers for my country can't seem to handle unicode characters.
> All " ' ' characters for instance show up as highlighted <U+0092> stuff.
> Can't seem to find an immediate fix, so my plan was to find and replace all
> those unicode characters in the grabbed files with the real characters.
>
> I tried this with sed and awk, but I can't get those to find the unicode
> characters.
>
> Anyone any idea how to manipulate these TV listings to somehting that can be
> passed orrectly to mythfilldatabase?
>

It would seem like a better idea to fix your grabber so that it
doesn't produce "funny characters" in the first place. If the grabber
is part of xmltv, you can file a bugreport at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=39046&atid=424135

/Mattias

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Mattias Holmlund
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