[mythtv-users] Non-ASCII characters in mythmessage/mythutil

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/22/2012 05:49 PM, peper03 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to display a message containing non-ASCII characters using mythutil --message?  I'm passing in a UTF-8 encoded string but it doesn't appear to be parsed as UTF-8.  Instead the extended characters appear as two characters (so processed using a single-byte character set).
>
> For example:
>
> ö appears as ö
> é appears as é
>
> I've tried changing the LANG environment variable but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Did you try specifying LC_ALL, too?

Mike