[mythtv] RE: EIT data transmitted in UTF8?

[Torbjörn Jansson]

Torbjörn Jansson <mailto:torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:
> Recently epg data from my dvb-c card started to have strange
> characters in it. I did a dvbsnoop of the EIT data and it looks like
> ComHem have started to transmit the guide data UTF8 encoded.
> When mythtv inserts it into the database it converts the data
> to UTF8 a second time, resulting in those wierd characters.
> 
> dvbsnoop says the charset is "Latin alphabet no. 5", but that can't
> be true. 
> 
> What's the best way of handling this in mythtv?

Now that i look a bit closer to the dvbsnoop output, UTF8 seems to be used
only on some days, so i guess this is a mistake or something from comhem.