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

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Nicolas Riendeau <knight at teksavvy.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 2015-04-06 2:14 PM, Ian Evans 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
>>
>
> This sounds like UTF-8 which is parsed/shown as if it was ISO-8859-1 or
> something similar..
>
> Is this a new problem?
>
>
Just answered Karl but will put it here too. Seems to be intermittent. My
eye just caught it today on a few titles, but I don't always notice it.



>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> If definitely sounds like properly encoded UTF-8 characters which are
> shown as if it was another character set...
>
> Any idea when this started happening and what version of MythTV are you
> running (master or -fixes and if -fixes, what version?)
>
> (If it is master then I might have an idea of a possible reason for
> this...)
>
>
> Running .27-fixes. As above it's an intermittent problem. Karl suggested
it might be a Schedules Direct issue.

You have a nice day too.
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