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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Monday, April 6, 2015, 9:42:53 PM, you wrote:

> Hoi Ian,

> Monday, April 6, 2015, 9:30:31 PM, you wrote:

>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> On 4/6/2015 1:28 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Probably.. the bug is a pain in the neck!  Same database, same server,
>>> same code, no restart, running it again works.  Can't replicate it at will,
>>> so don't even know where to start troubleshooting!
>>>

>> So much coffee has gone into my system with bugs like that when I work on
>> my site. Argh....

> I see something similar on occasion her in the Netherlands too. They
> also don't show right on the site I grab from.

Oh by the way. I put some search and replace code for the ones I
diagnosed in there at the end of the grab. Seems to work.


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