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| − | This is a short | + | This is a short HOWTO to display Unicode Chars in [[MythVideo]]. |
| − | My wife has some chinese movies that she likes to watch on [[ | + | 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: | + | * 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. | * 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, [[ | + | * 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 | + | * 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. | * Rerun video manager to repopulate the videometadata database. | ||
[[Category:HOWTO]] | [[Category:HOWTO]] | ||
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.
