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Feature request: Add dropdown box to allow encoding selection #2878

Closed moonlightz closed 3 months ago

moonlightz commented 3 months ago

Yeah.. it's me again. The last time we spoke, I "complained" about the tv channels list not properly handling encoding. It's been working since the change was made. The á é í... appeared alright until... ~3 weeks ago.

I usually use to grab EPG daily with a tool and I started to notice that there was some weird characters where supposed to be letters with accents. TV also got affected and everything that used tv too. MPC-Hc was also affected. I opned MPC-HC, gone to options > capture, ok button. Then clicked File > Open device... , I can see the list of channels and it's all right. Then I clicked Scan button and clicked the Start button. And I can could confirm.... the EPG/channels were no longer being supplied as UTF-8. The í was abing switched by a T with a dash, and so on. I complained to my isp and apparently they are clueless too.

So I wonder.... Is it possible to add a dropdown box with a encodings list like iso8859-1..... to the Tuning dialog? We could use this dropdown box to properly switch to the correct encoding.

adipose commented 3 months ago

Is it possible to add a dropdown box with a encodings list like iso8859-1..... to the Tuning dialog?

Honestly, unlikely I'd get to that. It's such a small group of people using DVB in the first place. But are you saying it's Latin1? If it's always latin-1 or UTF-8, maybe something can be done.

clsid2 commented 3 months ago

It can be any of the 8859 variants.

Since it worked before, I would say issue is with provider, and not worth handling on player side.

adipose commented 3 months ago

Yeah I recall it actually identifies the encoding itself. So if it is wrong then somebody screwed up.

moonlightz commented 3 months ago

Not sure what they did to the EPG service but it's kinda broken. I been in touch to the some people and they pointed it's using iso8859-1. A wrong move. UTF-8 is pratically universal unless they did gone to iso for compatibility. The EPG can be extracted with EPG tools. I extracted EPG with DVBGuide and it can generate a xml file. The way things appeared screwed in this xml file, it also appears with MPC-HC channels list. Few days ago, I installed notepad++ on this system, loaded the xml file and switched it to iso..... and... it doesn't appear right. No matter which one I picked, never gets it right.

I understand all what you wrote. Maybe... you want to undo the utf-8 code you applied last time and then when a next release gets out, I will check if it gets right.

clsid2 commented 3 months ago

We are not undoing code because your ISP messed up.