National characters in polish EPG (Cyfra+ and Polsat) won't work :(

[marcin.jachurski@…]

Polish (Hotbird) DVB-S operators give EPG encoded in the ISO-8859-2 (Polsat) and in ISO-6937 (Cyfra+). Unfortunately does not give information about encoding. Polsat is not suitable byte identifying coding. Cyfra+ gives the wrong marker.On the programs broadcast together we get different coding, both wrong.

MythTV allows to specify the encoding, but only for the transponder, which is transmitted program (in eithelper.cpp). In this case it is necessary to specify the encoding to the network or the transponder from which the EPG has been received.

I wrote an patch, which adds forcing iso-8859-2 and iso-6937, depending on the source transport and/or network id, not on TSID() and OriginalNetworkID() from existing DVBEventInformationTable.

There is someone who had similar problems and have any comments? Maybe I am wrong to do?

This new encodings: ISO-8859-2 for source network id 113 ISO-6937 for source network id 318

Also other channels from Hotbird:

TV POLONIA PULS TVS ITV TELE5 TVP Kultura TV Biznes POLONIA1 EDUSAT Mango 24 CSBTV TVR Rebel TV 4fun.TV Eska TV VIVA Polska. Czworka

[marcin.jachurski@…]

It is quote from ​http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2008-December/064048.html

but still isn't fixed.

[stuarta]

I'm still waiting for the patch mentioned in the email to be posted. Until then, i'm closing the ticket...

[marcin.jachurski@…]

But it was at Mon Dec 29 11:44:02 UTC 2008 and no one fix the problem until 0.24 version. If you need screenshots or database backup or any log. Please let me know. Polish people are frustrated at polish forums. And said that "We don't have full support for polish language :( "

Please fix it in the future version of MYTH TV. I am happy with that software so that's why i am asking you.

Good solution will be create field in channel table in database with EPG encoding from the air. After that all problems with any encodings in EPG will be solved.

THX.

[robertm]

Please don't re-open the ticket without a patch.

[voyo <voyo.mythtv@…>]

Im attaching a patch originally wrote by Wagabunda, this is old thread and description: ​http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2008-December/064048.html I only fixed this to patch cleanly against 0.24-fixes. This is not best possible solution because it *might* break on other satellites, its using some probably reserved bits. However works great for me.

[warpme@…]

Hi, It is great to have addressed PL chars on polish sat EIT. This patch works great for me with passive scan (2 weeks of tests). However with active scan I have quite frequent random errors with PL chars in prog titles or desc. I'm almost sure it is correlated with active scan as last 2 weeks I was on passive mode without any issues. Last evening I turned on active scan and now I have a lot of progs. with bad pl chars. I'm on 0.24-fixes 20110415. I'll be more that happy to help debug problem.

[stuartm]

Should be simple, patch attached to do encoding fixups for Polish EIT.

[warpme@…]

Stuart, I can't find patch You re referring to. Do I miss something ?