[mythtvnz] tv_grab_nz-py configuration issues

[Steve Holdoway]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 11:28 +1300, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> 
> Apologies if this has been answered before, I had a search through the
> archive but couldn't find a working answer.
> 
> 
> I downloaded the latest tv_grab_nz-py from nice.net.nz and made the
> adjustments mentioned by stephen in this thread:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/559187
> 
> 
> From:
> doc = ElementTree.parse(StringIO(text)).getroot() 
> ---- 
> To:
> parser = ElementTree.XMLParser(encoding="ISO-8859-1") 
> doc = ElementTree.parse(StringIO(text), parser=parser).getroot() 
> 
> 
> 
> But it still dies in the configuration for me when it gets to Marori
> TV with the unicodeEncodeError . 
> 
> 
> Is there anything else I am missing?
> Running Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server (fresh install) with tvheadend and xbmc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
I have no idea if this is relevant or not, but ISO-8859-1 usually means
the old windows-1252 character set, which probably doesn't support Maori
specific characters. Does UTF-8 encoding work any better??

Cheers,


Steve

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