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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/07/2015 11:25 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Michael,
>
> Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 5:18:35 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On 04/07/2015 11:03 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> 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. ;(
>> You don't have to use us.  You'd use:
>> export LC_ALL=nl_NL.UTF-8
>> export LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
>> The only part you have to have is the UTF-8 (encoding) part--and any
>> valid locale.  (Since MythTV doesn't change any of what you set, I'm
>> assuming you understood my message to say that you have to use "us" in
>> there somewhere?)
> No It is set to nl_NL.UTF-8, but always complains it cannot find
> us_NL.UTF-8. Which is correct for it does not exist. And everything
> seems to go OK, so it's not more then annoying.

No, I'm guessing it's set for nl_NL.UTF8 or nl_NL.utf8, which is /not/ 
nl_NL.UTF-8.  It will /only/ complain when it's not set to the right 
value, so if you're getting the warning, you (or your distro) have got 
it set incorrectly (for Qt's needs).  It's possible Qt's code has been 
updated so that it will all handle UTF8 as well as UTF-8 (the hyphen 
being the thing that's required, not the capitalization), but some parts 
of Qt didn't when the code was added to MythTV to give that warning, so 
MythTV explicitly tells people to set it in a way that it will always 
work, on any distro or any Unix-like OS. Things /will/ go wrong if Qt 
doesn't pick up the right encoding--even if you don't notice things 
going wrong.

Unfortunately, though, users can't seem to figure out that UTF8 != 
UTF-8, then write off the warning as "just more MythTV brokenness" 
because obviously the problem can't be my configuration.  And, when they 
don't notice issues, they think all is good.  But, hey, if you don't 
notice any problems, that means everything's good, right?  Just ask any 
smoker.

Mike