[mythtv-users] Odd Characters in some channels guide (EIT)

Joan Vallés joan.valles at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 15:24:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 07/15/2008 02:52 PM, Joan Vallés wrote:
> > About a month ago some odd characters started appearing in some
> > channels guide. In mythfrontend they look as squares before the title
> > or description. In mythweb they look as a square with the numbers
> > "0005" inside. [I'm attaching an image in case I didn't explain well]
> >
> > Anyone knows what's happening? I'm thinking in running a script every
> > minute to clean the database, but I don't like it.
>
> If it's (always) really Unicode character 0005, ENQ (enquiry), it's a C0
> Control (non-printable) character.
>
> What it's meant to do and why your EIT provider is including it, I
> couldn't tell you (but I'd guess it's some kind of mistake on their part).
>
> Whether it and other non-printable characters should be stripped from
> the EIT data, I'll leave up to the EIT experts.
>
> We don't strip any of these characters from caption/subtitle data,
> either, so you can occasionally see them.  For me, the only one I
> generally see in captions is 000A, LF (linefeed), which appears as a
> square--the same as your character does in the frontend--as that's how
> freetype represents a character that's not part of the currently-used font.
>
> Mike
>
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Thanks Mike I understand what you mean. My problem is that now all
"pre-unicode" recording rules do not work, and if I change them they won't
remember previously recorded programs. What should I do? Should post it as a
bug?

-- 
Joan
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