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

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes, it does seem to be an intermittent issue. Not even shows that I watch
that I noticed it on, but I guess my eye just found it jarring.
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