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

[Bill Meek]

On 04/07/2015 12:28 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 02:38 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Nicolas Riendeau 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.
>
> Before going any farther with this issue, please make sure that neither mythbackend nor mythfilldatabase nor mythfrontend  logs (ideally on any
> of your hosts) output the warning:
>
> This application expects to be running a locale that specifies a UTF-8 codeset, and many features may behave improperly with your current
> language settings. Please set the LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, and LANG variable(s) in the environment in which this program is executed to include a
> UTF-8 codeset (such as 'en_US.UTF-8').
>
> If so, please fix that as the first step.  If you do not fix that, you /should/ be having problems with encodings/characters--as the logs
> state.  :)
>
> Mike
>
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-- 
Bill