Problems with accents...

[FRD]

Hello,

I am quite new to GBPVR, started to play with it Yesterday, but today it seems that I found a quite annoying problem: I live in Hungary, and we have letters with accents like "ő" and "ű". Of course we have tonns of programs and shows containing these letters. Also there are programs that contains a colon ":" in their title.
Now If I change to a channel, where one of these shows are going, then Live TV can not create the file (as it would have a filename that can not be created with, like "Élő: Visszatekintés" - colon will blow things up...), and it ends up with a big blank screen, as of course the decoder can not find the file to play back...

Maybe it is known and solved, and I've just missed some information from Wiki...
Anyone has any idea? (Don't write that I should use live preview, as that is not working for me...
But perhaps to change the filenaming pattern somehow not to add the title of the show...

Thanks, BR:
FRD

[sub]

Send one of your XMLTV files to me at support@devnz.com and I'll take a look.

[sss]

Sorry I was wrong in http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=5628

sub, you are right: the reason not in spaces, but in "special"
(not ASCII?) symbols (i removed them with spaces in that case)...

I'm in Switzerland and many channels are French with "acsent grave"
and so on... The foreign languages support (fonts) (English,French) is installed on WinXP (with native Russian
If I try timeshifting or scheduled record for show with "special" symbols
the file is created (!) and AFTER finishing of records I CAN play it by GBPVR.
But GBPVR CAN'T play file DURING recording. There is no crash: simply
return to "Pending" list of shows.
For me log file does not show something special (?) (below).
The title of show(cartoon) results in the next filename:

Scooby-Doo et lécole des sorcières_20050422_10001135.mpg

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23.04.2005 23:01:21.296 VERBOSE [2] Loading button images: .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn.png, .\skin\Blue\OSD\pbmenubtn-selected.png
23.04.2005 23:01:21.312 VERBOSE [2] RecordLiveTV: 1
23.04.2005 23:01:22.530 VERBOSE [2] About to play LiveTV File: Scooby-Doo et lécole des sorcières_20050422_10001135.mpg Channel: tsr
23.04.2005 23:01:22.530 VERBOSE [2] Before LiveTV Play
23.04.2005 23:01:23.296 VERBOSE [2] After LiveTV Play
23.04.2005 23:01:23.296 VERBOSE [2] RenewLease: 1
23.04.2005 23:01:23.327 VERBOSE [2] getValue cached value: /settings/DefaultSkipSecondsForward : 60
23.04.2005 23:01:23.327 VERBOSE [2] getValue cached value: /settings/DefaultSkipSecondsBack : 30
23.04.2005 23:01:23.327 VERBOSE [2] getValue cached value: /settings/ManualSkipTimebase : Minutes
23.04.2005 23:01:23.343 VERBOSE [2] Received event code: 1
23.04.2005 23:01:23.359 VERBOSE [2] StopLiveTV()
23.04.2005 23:01:23.515 VERBOSE [2] at au.j()
23.04.2005 23:01:27.702 VERBOSE [2] PreviewLiveTV(1)
23.04.2005 23:01:27.718 VERBOSE [2] PreviewLiveTV() done
23.04.2005 23:01:27.718 VERBOSE [2] DirectRecordingSource::getPreviewGraph(1)
23.04.2005 23:01:28.749 VERBOSE [2] Received event code: 14
23.04.2005 23:01:59.015 VERBOSE [2] RenewLease: 1

[FRD]

Thanks for the quick reacting...

The problem is that I don't want to record anything, just watch the TV. As I am not using the Live preview feature (yet) I can not see anything, as it would need playing it during recording.
Things are worse with shows that have colons in their title (just think "Earth: Final Conflict" for example) as here the filename can not be created at all...

Anyway, I've just sent a mail with an XMLTV file in it, as You asked. I will try the Live Preview feature tomorrow (I had problems with that too, but in another topic I got answer, hopefully that will work)

Many thanks, BR:
FRD

[sss]

It would be great to resolve the issue on the level of GBPVR
(and may be even start to support fonts for other languages
For the time being I've ended with the below string in perl - not full translation but enough for French (for some reason there is a space in translation string - not needed

------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

open(ACCENTS,'+<','accents.xml') or die "Can't find file accents.xml: $!\n";
open(NEWACCENTS,'+>','accents-new.xml') or die "Can't find file 'accents-new.xml': $!\n";

while (<ACCENTS>) {
tr/ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöùúûüýÿ/AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaaceeeeiiiinooooouuuuyy/;

print NEWACCENTS $_;
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

[sub]

Its sorted in the next version of GB-PVR.

[sss]

Thank you!

And really how hard to support other languages?
Currently I can't see russian fonts (music titles and so on)
on GBPVR screen (system has installed fonts).

[sub]

And really how hard to support other languages?
Currently I can't see russian fonts (music titles and so on)
on GBPVR screen (system has installed fonts).

To be quite honest, I dont know how it works with other languages like Russian. I dont purposefully do anything that'll stop other languages being used, but I dont actively test anything other than english.

It definitely works with some non-english languages such as Swedish, but other languages may have issues I'm not aware of.