[mythtv-users] MythVideo: Umlaut, special characters in filenames in storage groups - files invisible

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu May 12 18:30:30 UTC 2011


On 05/12/2011 05:52 AM, Yianni Vidalis wrote:
>> So I added export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 to /etc/init/mythtv-backend.config.
>>
>> It now looks like this:
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> # MythTV Backend service
>>
>> description "MythTV Backend"
>> author "Mario Limonciello<superm1 at ubuntu.com>"
>>
>> export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
>>
>> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=lo and started udev-finish)
>> stop on starting shutdown
>>
>> #expect fork
>> respawn
>>
>> exec /usr/bin/mythbackend --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log
>> --user mythtv
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I restarted for good measure and nothing changed.
>> Still no videos with Umlaut in the storage group but I can see and
>> play them in the non-storage-group directory.
>>
>> Anything else I can do
>
> The problem was solved for me with M. Dean's help. See my first post on this thread.
>
> I use opensuse, and although I install the trunk version of myth, I kept the mythbackend script from the rpm package in /etc/init.d
>
> In that script, I included ALL the following before the part that starts the backend:
>
>
> export LANG=el_GR.UTF-8
> export LC_CTYPE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_NUMERIC="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_TIME="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_COLLATE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_MONETARY="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_MESSAGES="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_PAPER="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_NAME="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_ADDRESS="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_TELEPHONE="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_MEASUREMENT="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_IDENTIFICATION="el_GR.UTF-8"
> export LC_ALL=el_GR.UTF-8
>
> Maybe it's just the LC_ALL that does the trick, but I don't want to test it!

In theory, setting LC_ALL should set the value for all of the LC_* 
variables to the same value specified for LC_ALL.

That said, I don't know why it's not helping.  The best thing I could 
recommend at this point is to upgrade to 0.24-fixes and see if that helps.

Mike


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