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This is a short [[How To]] to display Unicode Chars in [[Myth Video]].
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This is a short HOWTO to display Unicode Chars in [[MythVideo]].
  
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My wife has some chinese movies that she likes to watch on [[Myth Video]]; but the filenames have chinese characters on them, thus show up as garbage on Mythvideo's browser. After lots of digging, this is what I did to fix it:
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My wife has some chinese movies that she likes to watch on [[MythVideo]]; but the filenames have chinese characters on them, thus show up as garbage on Mythvideo's browser. After lots of digging, this is what I did to fix it:
  
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1. Get your locale right. There are various ways in different distributions to do this, but in Debian and bash, I did: <code><nowiki>export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8</nowiki></code>
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* Get your locale right. There are various ways in different distributions to do this, but in Debian and bash, I did:
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2. Get a font that supports unicode. I copied over Arial Unicode MS from my laptop running Windows XP. Testing it in Konqueror, konqueror now renders the filenames correctly.
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export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
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3. Remove all old metadata in videometadata table. On 0.18, [[Myth Video]] is unable to remove metadata entries that have unicode characters. You have to manually remove them.
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* Get a font that supports unicode. I copied over Arial Unicode MS from my laptop running Windows XP. Testing it in Konqueror, konqueror now renders the filenames correctly.
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4. For the theme that you're running, figure out the font that is being used for the list. The theme file should be in `/usr/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml` or `/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml`. I looked at Titivilus (my current theme), and changed the font there from whatever it was to Arial Unicode MS.
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* Remove all old metadata in videometadata table. On 0.18, [[MythVideo]] is unable to remove metadata entries that have unicode characters. You have to manually remove them.
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5. Rerun video manager to repopulate the videometadata database.
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* For the theme that you're running, figure out the font that is being used for the list. The theme file should be in:
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** '''/usr/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml''' or
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** '''/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml'''.
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: I looked at Titivilus (my current theme), and changed the font there from whatever it was to Arial Unicode MS.
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* Rerun video manager to repopulate the videometadata database.
  
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Latest revision as of 04:18, 31 January 2006

This is a short HOWTO to display Unicode Chars in MythVideo.

My wife has some chinese movies that she likes to watch on MythVideo; but the filenames have chinese characters on them, thus show up as garbage on Mythvideo's browser. After lots of digging, this is what I did to fix it:

  • Get your locale right. There are various ways in different distributions to do this, but in Debian and bash, I did:
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
  • Get a font that supports unicode. I copied over Arial Unicode MS from my laptop running Windows XP. Testing it in Konqueror, konqueror now renders the filenames correctly.
  • Remove all old metadata in videometadata table. On 0.18, MythVideo is unable to remove metadata entries that have unicode characters. You have to manually remove them.
  • For the theme that you're running, figure out the font that is being used for the list. The theme file should be in:
    • /usr/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml or
    • /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/<theme>/theme.xml.
I looked at Titivilus (my current theme), and changed the font there from whatever it was to Arial Unicode MS.
  • Rerun video manager to repopulate the videometadata database.
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