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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Michael,

Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 4:53:10 PM, you wrote:

> On 04/07/2015 09:50 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> On 07/04/15 01:28 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>> 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.  :)
>>
>> What Mike means is that you need:
>>
>> export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

> though ideally you'd also set LANG:

> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

> i.e. ( LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE ) and LANG

> (Yes, I know that an application that understands LC_CTYPE shouldn't 
> need LANG, but Qt was designed for use on a myriad of 
> differently-brok^H^H^H^Hdesigned distributions and operating systems and
> tries to use complex logic to figure out what to use--but has different
> code in different places--so the best bet is to have both set so that 
> everything works right, regardless of which part of Qt we're using in 
> the various parts of MythTV.)

>>
>> in the .bashrc file for the user running mythbackend etc..
>>
>> Or in /etc/bashrc if you have different users.
>>
>> And a quick grep tells me that I also have that tucked into the 
>> pre-start.sh script which runs as part of systemd's startup for 
>> mythbackend.

> Right, basically make sure it's set in all the environments in which 
> MythTV applications are run.  This often involves putting it in many 
> places (as you did), because different MythTV applications are started
> from different environments/by different users/by different 
> script-runners/...

> Mike
> _______________________________________________

It then doesn't do so good a job outside the US. It doesn't understand
nl_NL.UTF-8. It tries to make it us_NL.UTF-8 which doesn't exist. ;(


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