[mythtvnz] XMLTV headers changed

David Moore dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz
Sun Jul 8 02:57:53 BST 2012


On 07/07/12 23:47, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 21:53 +1200, David Moore wrote:
>>
>> UTF-8 is betterer. :) No, seriously, see Stephen's comments and do some
>> googling. UTF-8 is a more robust and future-proof char set so you'll
>> come across it more often than ISO_8859-1. Why change now? It was time I
>> suppose.
>
> Why change now?  The episode description for The Block NZ on next
> Wednesday has a UTF-8 hyphen in it.  I just had to fix a bug in
> mythtv-status where I wasn't encoding&  decoding UTF-8 correctly.
>
> Cheers!
>

Andrew, I'm not sure I fully grasp what you mean however, no criticism 
intended, the MHEG EPG data has contained UTF-8 multi-byte chars since I 
started working on it. Probably from the day freeview started but I 
haven't read the freeview spec so I could be wrong.



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