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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ian,

Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 8:46:20 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> wrote:

>> On 04/07/2015 02:31 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Okay, while my environment shows the UTF-8 lines, I grep'd the logs and
>>> do see that warning in the mythfilldatabse log.
>>>
>>> How do I check the environment of the mythtv user if that user isn't a
>>> login shell user? And/or how would I set those for the mythtv user at boot?
>>>
>>
>> You would need to check the script that starts the mythtv application and,
>> if it doesn't specify one, check the environment of the program that calls
>> the script to start the mythtv application (or that calls the mythtv
>> application directly).
>>
>>
> Running mythbuntu.

> */etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf* has the following lines in it:

> script
>         test -f /etc/default/locale && . /etc/default/locale || true
>         LANG=$LANG exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv
> --daemon
> end script

> /etc/default/locale has:

> LANG="en_CA.UTF-8"

> So is it safe to change the conf line to:

>         LANG=$LANG LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_CA.UTF-8" exec
> /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv --daemon

> And if it is safe, are the quotes needed?

. /etc/default/locale imports the file into the environment. You
should add the extra variables on newlines into that file.
LANG=$LANG seems superfluous to me.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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