<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 07/15/2008 02:52 PM, Joan Vallés wrote:<br>
> About a month ago some odd characters started appearing in some<br>
> channels guide. In mythfrontend they look as squares before the title<br>
> or description. In mythweb they look as a square with the numbers<br>
> "0005" inside. [I'm attaching an image in case I didn't explain well]<br>
><br>
> Anyone knows what's happening? I'm thinking in running a script every<br>
> minute to clean the database, but I don't like it.<br>
<br>
</div></div>If it's (always) really Unicode character 0005, ENQ (enquiry), it's a C0<br>
Control (non-printable) character.<br>
<br>
What it's meant to do and why your EIT provider is including it, I<br>
couldn't tell you (but I'd guess it's some kind of mistake on their part).<br>
<br>
Whether it and other non-printable characters should be stripped from<br>
the EIT data, I'll leave up to the EIT experts.<br>
<br>
We don't strip any of these characters from caption/subtitle data,<br>
either, so you can occasionally see them. For me, the only one I<br>
generally see in captions is 000A, LF (linefeed), which appears as a<br>
square--the same as your character does in the frontend--as that's how<br>
freetype represents a character that's not part of the currently-used font.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Thanks Mike I understand what you mean. My problem is that now all "pre-unicode" recording rules do not work, and if I change them they won't remember previously recorded programs. What should I do? Should post it as a bug?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Joan
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