[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] xmltv2vdr-1.0.5

[Morfsta <morfsta@irmplc.com>]

This is exactly what I intend to incorporate into xmltv2vdr.pl. I never 
noticed it as I am English and we don't have all those strange characters!

The only problem I have observed is that ampersand characters come out as 
"&". Most of the UK EPG info from xmltv doesn't have any other 
characters.

I think that this information is HTML encoding (also used in XML?) of 
certain characters. It would be useful to gain a list of all these 
characters and the associated ASCII value of what they should look like.

I will then write a translation table into xmltv2vdr.pl. Does anyone know 
of any source of information for where I can get *all* of the HTML -> 
ASCII table mappings, or point me in the direction of an alternative 
library to do this function?

Regards,

Morph


On Thu, 22 May 2003, Gerhard Steiner wrote:

> These strange "und middot" comes from the epg-provider.
> I tried to contact one of them, but didn't get an answer.
> 
> The best way would be to integrate some kind of
> "exchange"-function into xmltv2vdr, that scans the text for
> those "und ..." an exchanges them with the real character.
> 
> Unfortunately I do have my xmltv2vdr.pl at home.
> Maybe I can post a suggestion for this today evening.
> 
> Gerhard
> 
> On 21 May 2003 19:38:44 +0200
>  Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de> wrote:
> >Am Mit, 2003-05-21 um 12.25 schrieb Morfsta:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> xmltv2vdr version 1.0.5 has now been released on the VDR
> >FTP site. This 
> >> tool allows EPG information to be read from the xmltv
> >site which carries 
> >> listings for Germany, Finland, US, New Zealand, UK and
> >Sweden/Norway
> >> 
> >> This is helpful if you cannot get much information from
> >your DVB stream. 
> >> Full instructions are included in the tar file.
> >> 
> >> It can be found at: -
> >> 
> >> ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Tools/xmltv2vdr-1.0.5.tar.gz
> >> 
> >> Fixes since the last version include: -
> >> 
> >> 2003-05-18: Version 1.0.4 (unreleased)
> >> 
> >> - Problem with options fixed
> >> - Changes incorporated from Erik Günther ("I did find
> >out that VDR ignores 
> >>   extra  information on a line so adding xmltv-info at
> >the end of the line 
> >>   works fine. The problem was that xmltv2vdr.pl expected
> >that all lines in 
> >>   input ether to have a xmltv extention or was not an
> >header line.  I also 
> >>   added an new option -t for changing the timeout. This
> >was for my machine
> >>   a P3 600 was to slow and wasn't done in time. So now I
> >can specify -t 
> >>   600 for 600s)
> >> - Fixed problems with the "expected SVDRP code 250, but
> >received 451 at
> >>   ./xmltv2vdr.pl line 56" error.
> >> - Added extra flag, -v to show warning/debug messages
> >> 
> >> 2003-05-19: Version 1.0.5
> >> 
> >> - Added simulation mode option (-s) for debugging. This
> >does not send info
> >>   to SVDRP, but prints all commands it would sent to
> >stdout.
> >> - Fixed problem for satellite users not getting
> >information into VDR. 
> >>   Problem was that the frequency is not chopped to three
> >digits like 
> >>   terrestrial.
> >>  
> >
> >Now I'm getting information into EPG, but EPG is broken
> >now.
> >
> >The umlauts are not displayed correctly, a strange "und
> >middot" appears
> >in the summaries (OSD and VDRADMIN) and I cannot switch to
> >the other
> >pages of VDRADMIN after "What's running now" page has been
> >opened.
> >
> >Rene
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >Info:
> >To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with
> >"unsubscribe vdr" as subject.
> >
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Das ist ein Service von austria.com
> 
> 
> 



-- 
Info:
To unsubscribe send a mail to ecartis@linuxtv.org with "unsubscribe vdr" as subject.