XBMCEyeTVParser and unicode paths - no thumbnail shown, repeated error in xbmc logs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Icorrectly, and configure it to read the correct EyeTV Archive folder
2. Have .eyetv recordings with accented characters in their name

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- Expected : thumbnails.
- Result : No thumbnail for entries with "special" characters, and repeated 
error messages in xbmc.log

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
- XBMC SVN 17911
- XBMCEyeTVParser SVN HEAD 
- Mac OS X 10.5.6 / Intel

Please provide any additional information below.

Repeated messages : 
17:34:29 T:2684749600 M: 22622208   ERROR: PICTURE: Error loading image 
/Volumes/Media/EyeTV Archive/La m?thode Cauet - 
Divertissement - Cauet[1].eyetv/000000000ef1bd61.tiff
17:34:29 T:2684749600 M: 22622208   ERROR: Texture manager unable to load file: 
/Volumes/Media/EyeTV Archive/La méthode Cauet - 
Divertissement - Cauet[1].eyetv/000000000ef1bd61.tiff
17:34:29 T:2684749600 M: 22564864    INFO:   msg: PICTURE::LoadImage: Unable to 
open image: /Volumes/Media/EyeTV Archive/La m?thode 
Cauet - Divertissement - Cauet[1].eyetv/000000000ef1bd6

Note that : 
- Tiff files do exist at the correct location.
- The 1st ERROR and INFO shows "La m?thode..." while the second shows "La 
méthode..."
- adding "print icon" in default.py shows path correctly encoded.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gouk...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2009 at 4:47

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I believe this is a problem in the latest SVN plugin code.
It seems like this problem does not exist in Atlantis 8.10.
Any experts want to take a look at this?

Original comment by propheadcity@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2009 at 10:33

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heres a link to bring the code up in google code because it seems to have 
dropped off
the list:
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-addons/source/browse/trunk/plugins/video/XBMCEyetv
Parser/

Original comment by propheadcity@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2009 at 10:35

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Original comment by billdaly111@gmail.com on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:57

• Changed state: Done

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Original comment by rwparris2 on 4 Jun 2009 at 5:11

• Changed state: New

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added version 1.38 to SVN.  Now includes an ugly hack to get XBMC to work with 
utf-8
thumbnails.

Original comment by propheadcity@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2009 at 8:46

• Changed state: Fixed