[mythtv-users] Foreign character sets

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Thu Feb 4 04:24:49 UTC 2010


Nick Rout wrote:
> 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.
>   
Well, tmdb manages quite well.  It's gotten many of the films right, so 
mysql + myth handles the characters.  The problem is getting them 
stuffed in there.

I have no clue how to do that.  :-(

--Yan


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