[mythtv-commits] Ticket #3534: MythFlix fails to load Queue with UTF-8 characters in movie _title_

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#3534: MythFlix fails to load Queue with UTF-8 characters in movie _title_
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  kkuphal   
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  closed    
 Priority:  minor      |    Milestone:  unknown   
Component:  mythflix   |      Version:  unknown   
 Severity:  medium     |   Resolution:  worksforme
  Mlocked:  0          |  
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Changes (by cpinkham):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => worksforme


Old description:

> I have noticed what seems to be a small problem with MythFlix, namely
> that the Queue file is not read if there are odd characters in the movie
> title.  One such title is Mambo Café  (that is Mambo Cafe where the
> e has an accent mark).  On my MBE system which is gentoo with a mythtv
> build of 0.21_p13344 I get the error "Failed to Retrieve News" in
> MythFlix, and "MythNews: failed to set content from xmlfile" in the debug
> logs.
>
> By hand editing the Queue file to remove this character from the title
> field, (and setting the permissions on the Queue file so that it does not
> get overwritten on the next run, I can make this problem go away by
> replacing the offending character with a standard "e".  I have attached 2
> small Queue files that can be used as test cases.
>
> In studying the existing trac tickets, I found this one which might be
> similar.
>
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/10063
>
> This changeset applies to the _description_ field of the movie, not the
> title field, but it seems to be  a similar problelm.
>
> I see from a similar topic

New description:

 I have noticed what seems to be a small problem with MythFlix, namely that
 the Queue file is not read if there are odd characters in the movie title.
 One such title is Mambo Café  (that is Mambo Cafe where the e has an
 accent mark).  On my MBE system which is gentoo with a mythtv build of
 0.21_p13344 I get the error "Failed to Retrieve News" in MythFlix, and
 "MythNews: failed to set content from xmlfile" in the debug logs.

 By hand editing the Queue file to remove this character from the title
 field, (and setting the permissions on the Queue file so that it does not
 get overwritten on the next run, I can make this problem go away by
 replacing the offending character with a standard "e".  I have attached 2
 small Queue files that can be used as test cases.

 In studying the existing trac tickets, I found this one which might be
 similar.

 http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/10063

 This changeset applies to the _description_ field of the movie, not the
 title field, but it seems to be  a similar problelm.

 I see from a similar topic

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Comment:

 No update from user and this seems to work fine for me, I copied the title
 from the sample 'broken' queue file into my own and changed the
 permissions so it wouldn't be overwritten and I was able to view my queue
 without any problems.  Closing ticket for now.

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