[mythtv-users] Foreign character sets
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Thu Feb 4 04:24:49 UTC 2010
Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a bunch of Japanese movies. Some of them get pulled in from tmdb
>> with kanji (japanese characters), some with their American names, and some
>> with their japanese names in roman characters. I would really like for all
>> of them to be in kanji.
>>
>> However, the japanese input system doesn't seem to work, and I can't cut and
>> paste into the screen edit window. Short of directly editing the database,
>> I'm out of ideas on how to get kanji into the movie title.
>>
>> Is there some CLI utility for editing the database?
>>
>
> mysql?
>
> But (1) hand editing is frowned on (2) I wouldn't have a clue about
> how to enter foreign characters in there anyway.
>
Well, tmdb manages quite well. It's gotten many of the films right, so
mysql + myth handles the characters. The problem is getting them
stuffed in there.
I have no clue how to do that. :-(
--Yan
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