[mythtv-users] Issue with accents in titles and descriptions: Myth or Schedules Direct?

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Noticed an issue with accents in some shows and descriptions in the
> program grid. As I was scrolling through the listings, both on the TV and
> through Mythweb, I saw this show title:
>
> Justice for All With Judge Cristina Pérez
>
> on Zap2it it shows as Justice for All With Judge Cristina Pérez.
>
> I've noticed the same é issue on French Canadian shows. Just wondering if
> it's a Myth issue or possibly how it's being received from Schedules Direct.
>
> I think it's a known unicode conversion issue from Schedules Direct that
they haven't been able to track down. If I recall it happens only part of
the time, so sometimes you'll get good characters and sometimes not. Kinda
sucks for duplicate matching, but fortunately I think mythtv uses the
programid/seriesid from SchedulesDirect, which is still consistent.

Karl
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