id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc mlocked 6026 mythfilldatabase problem in Japanese yokan_geo@… stuartm "I am running mythtv on gentoo linux /amd Athlon64X2 4850e mythTV version is 0.21 (0.21_p18314-r1 in portage) mysql is version 5.0.70 I have trouble showing Japanese in OSD When I checked the values in mysql mythconverg.program, I found most strings become '??????' mysql status command shows following message: ##################################### mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.70, for pc-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 Connection id: 22 Current database: Current user: root@localhost SSL: Not in use Current pager: /usr/bin/less Using outfile: '' Using delimiter: ; Server version: 5.0.70-log Gentoo Linux mysql-5.0.70-r1 Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset: utf8 Db characterset: utf8 Client characterset: utf8 Conn. characterset: utf8 UNIX socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock Uptime: 54 min 59 sec when I run xmltv script tv_grab_jp from shell, it returns xml where strings are encoded in utf8 and which has right attribute 'encoding=""UTF-8""' in root xml element. " defect closed minor unknown mythfilldatabase 0.21 medium invalid 0