[mythtv-users] Foreign character sets

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> I have a bunch of Japanese movies.  Some of them get pulled in from tmdb
> with kanji (japanese characters), some with their American names, and some
> with their japanese names in roman characters.  I would really like for all
> of them to be in kanji.
>
> However, the japanese input system doesn't seem to work, and I can't cut and
> paste into the screen edit window.  Short of directly editing the database,
> I'm out of ideas on how to get kanji into the movie title.
>
> Is there some CLI utility for editing the database?

mysql?

But (1) hand editing is frowned on (2) I wouldn't have a clue about
how to enter foreign characters in there anyway.