[mythtv-users] MythWeather/Perl locale UTF-8/ISO-8859-1 problems ?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Sep 26 20:47:58 UTC 2010


  On 09/26/2010 04:03 PM, Rune Evjen wrote:
> When using the Norwegian yr.no weather data provider in current trunk,
> I get what seems to be some UTF-8/ISO-8859-1 encoding problems for
> Norwegian æøå letters.
>
> It seems that the function 'format_date' in
> '/usr/share/mythtv/mythweather/scripts/no_yrno/yrnoxml.pl' returns
> no-UTF8 character, even if the locale is/should be correctly set.
>
> The small perl test:
>
> use POSIX qw(strftime);
> print strftime "%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime;
>
> works fine, and gives a UTF-8 display of the date: sø. sep. 26 21:53:30 2010.
>
> But in mythtv and when running the yrnoxml.pl script the date is shown
> like this:
>
> ..
> date-0::ma. sep. 27, 2010 12:00:00
> date-1::ti. sep. 28, 2010 12:00:00
> date-2::on. sep. 29, 2010 14:00:00
> date-3::to. sep. 30, 2010 14:00:00
> date-4::fr. okt.  1, 2010 14:00:00
> date-5::lø. okt.  2, 2010 14:00:00
> ..
> observation_time::sø. sep. 26, 2010 19:15:00
> ...
> Based on my very limited perl understanding the above output is
> created using the 'format_date' function, which uses strftime to
> convert the raw data to the date format in the script output, in more
> or less the same way as my test script which has a correct output.
>
> If I convert the output from yrnoxml.pl from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 using
> iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8<yrnoxml-output>  the norwegian letters
> are displayed fine.
>
> My user locale is set to:
> rune at server:~$ locale
> LANG=nb_NO.utf8
> LANGUAGE=nb:nb_NO:en_US:en
> LC_CTYPE="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_NUMERIC="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_TIME="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_COLLATE="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_MONETARY="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_MESSAGES="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_PAPER="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_NAME="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_ADDRESS="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="nb_NO.utf8"
> LC_ALL=
>
> Has anyone seen this before ? Is this a locale configuration issue ?

Please try:

export LC_ALL="nb_NO.utf8"

then run the script.

Mike


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