[mythtvnz] XMLTV headers changed

[Robin Gilks]

> 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".


I've put in

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

and it seems to work fine (I'm converting the epgsnoop output) but that
still doesn't explain to me why ISO_8859-1 has worked fine for a number of
years in epgsnoop but now it has to change...


-- 
Robin Gilks