[mythtv-users] myth and unicode..

[Damian O'Sullivan]

On Sun, 11 May 2008, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> All characters in the 0.21 and below MythTV database /must/ be encoded
> as latin1.  That means that special characters need to be written as
> multiple latin1 characters such that when "unencoded" by MythTV, they
> will turn into the proper (non-latin1) characters.  Putting utf8 (or
> whatever your script is putting into the DB) breaks the data.
>
> Mike

Thanks Mike -

Hmm. How come mythweb works ok? Also the file appears in mythvideo just 
does not use the extra videometadata. Myth seems to have no problem with 
the filename and the way it is stored in the DB. A little confused as I 
don't know too much about locales and encoding etc..

PS. These files are on a smb mounted fs and I had to use convmv to convert 
them to UTF8.

D.