[mythtvnz] Debugging epgsnoop problem.

[Robin Gilks]

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>
>> Me and epgsnoop - we do have problems!!
>>
>> The latest one may be related to updating to python-2.5. epgsnoop (after
>> a
>> re-install just in case!!) errors as follows:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/local/bin/epgsnoop", line 167, in <module>
>>    print output(channels, programs)
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
>> 302228-302268: ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>
> I was having the same issue. I fixed it by changing the 4th to last line
> in
> outputter.py to:
>
> return '\n'.join(output).decode('iso-8859-1',replace)
>
> and removing the
>
> ... .decode('latin-1)
>
> statements from the name and description sections in snooper.py.

Not sure how I got my current version of epgsnoop (latest date in all the
files is 4th March)  but it already has these changes in it :-(

Since the only thing I'm aware of that has changed is the version of
python (now at version 2.5.2), I assume its something there...

-- 
Robin Gilks