[mythtv-users] Problems with unicode in epg

[Torbjörn Jansson]

mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org <> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:51:02PM +0200, Marco Reichwald wrote:
>> 
>> I'm using mythtv-cvs from a few days ago.
>> My problem is that the EPG (onscreen and with mythweb) doesn't show
>> german umlauts. It shows the raw 2-byte unicode sequence instead.
> 
> OK, I've narrowed the problem a bit:
> There seems to be some kind of "double conversion". Special characters
> in the database consist of four bytes.
> As if the input routine would be like:
> INSERT INTO program [...]
> latin1_to_utf8(latin1_to_utf8($latin1_string))
> 
> Any idea what could cause this problem?
> 

I've seen this problem too.
The program guide doesn't handle utf8 characters properly when it displays
the channel name.

Some developer probably needs to take a look at the epg, I'm guessing its
just a one line fix.

I think there may be some problems in the channel editor in the setup
program too, I remember I had some problems entering chars like åäö for the
channel name.