[mythtv-users] EIT codepage translation

Janne Grunau janne-mythtvusers at grunau.be
Thu Mar 15 20:21:24 UTC 2007


On Thursday 15 March 2007 12:48:25 Eduard Huguet wrote:
> Hi,
>     I was wondering if there is any setting, somewhere in MythTV,
> which controls which codepage the EIT data is interpreted as.

There is no setting. The DVB standard requires that the encoding is 
specified at the start of the text.
But too many broadcasters are too stupid to read standards :(

> I mean, 
> I'm getting correct EIT data, but I'm observing that some "special"
> spanish characters such as "á", "é", etc... are not displayed
> correctly in EPG.
>
> Does anybody knows if this can solved?

Please have a look at libs/libmythtv/eithelper.cpp.

Janne


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