On Fri, 23 February, 2007 9:04 am, Gary Steele wrote:
> Hello freevo users,
>
>
> I live in the Netherlands and I have just upgraded to freevo 1.6.3
> from 1.6.2. I have had some problems recently with unicode characters in
> program and channel names.
>
> Some of these problems were fixed by the upgrade: in particular, in
> 1.6.2, the webserver would crash when displaying the program guide or
> the manual recordings page, usually crashing when it reached a channel name
> that contained two "accent aigu" (Belgie één). This has been fixed in
> 1.6.3 after generating the ISO-8859-1 and setting sitecustomize.py to
> use the ISO-8859-1 locale for encoding.
>
> However, I am still having some unicode related problems. In particular,
> when trying to add a program on "Belgie één" to my favourites list, I got a
> recordserver error ("connection lost"). Attached below is some info from
> the freevo stdout out and the recordserver logfile with DEBUG=1 in
> local_conf.py. It seems to be a problem with the unicode handling of some
> of the xml functions.I think that what you have done is wont work 100%. sitecustomize.py should have utf-8 and local_conf.py should have LOCALE=ISO-8859-1. This way when Python translates a string to Unicode it will try utf-8 encoding first and then iso-8859-1 second. If you have non-ASCII characters in local_conf you need to either make them unicode, i.e. u'Belgie één' or add a coding line at the top of the local_conf. HTH Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
