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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Karl,

Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 7:09:07 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>> Hoi Michael,
>>
>> Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 6:43:52 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> It seems you're right. I did a qt upgrade last week (4.8.5 to 4.8.6)
>> and it now sings a different tune. It's no longer talking about
>> us_NL.UTF-8 but about nl_NL.utf8 and that's a first. I before tried
>> changing the string without effect? I'll try again.
>>

> Hika,

> Check `eselect locale` on Gentoo. Pick the one with "UTF-8". That may be
> all you need.

> Karl

Thanks, I know, but even though I set it right in /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen changes the strings.
I have
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
nl_NL.UTF-8 UTF-8
and some others in there, but eselect only offers em_US.utf8 and
nl_NL.utf8 (and those others for iso8859)

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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