[mythtvnz] XMLTV headers changed

[David Moore]

On 07/07/12 21:06, David Moore wrote:
> On 07/07/12 20:39, David Moore wrote:
>> Interestingly you may have revealed a bug. UTF-8 encoding created by 
>> mhegepgsnoop is displayed properly (e.g., by "less file" and myth) 
>> but iconv choked on one character. Seems the byte order might be 
>> backwards for this char but most apps handle it because bytes in 
>> multi-byte UTF-8 chars are unambiguous so order doesn't really 
>> matter. iconv may be less tolerant and simply abort if it gets bytes 
>> in the wrong order.
>
> I take it back. Seems the bytes in the character iconv choked on are 
> in the correct order. Bug in iconv?

As usual I didn't RTFM. What you need is:

iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-1//TRANSLIT this_file -o that_file

"man iconv" for explanation of "//TRANSLIT".