Tvheadend

I just used tv_grab_dvb¹ to test this. The solution was in a comment in dvb_text_iconv.c:

/* The spec says ISO-6937, but many stations get it wrong and use ISO-8859-1. */

Changing the next line to

char *iso6937_encoding = "ISO-8859-1";

and recompiling fixes the issue, so the solution for this feed would be to have an option in tvheadend to interpret the EPG as a different encoding.

[1] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Tv_grab_dvb

I have a ugly workaround that "worked for me" until a month ago when the broadcast provider I use messed all up again.

Grab the git version, and change the following in src/dvb/dvb_support.c at line 269:

ic = convert_iso6937;

to

ic = convert_iso_8859[1];

As anyone figured out a "working" workaround for this? Or (hopefully) will we have to wait until the next release?

I had the same problem on my tv and the workaround was to set the country to spain and re-tune the channels. I don't know if there is an easy way of applying the same configuration to tvheadend.

Thank you.

Where is that? I can't seem to find it in the interface. I'm running 3.4.27~gfbda802~precise

Pedro Côrte-Real wrote:

Where is that? I can't seem to find it in the interface. I'm running 3.4.27~gfbda802~precise

Pedro, I think the option Adam means is under:
Configuration>DVB Inputs>TV Adapters>DVB charset (I'm running 3.4).

However I've changed mine from auto to ISO8859-1 but didn't see no effect. Should I restart the service?
The correct charset was ISO8859-1 or did I got it wrong?

An update. I've forced the refresh of the epg guide, but strangely only some of the special characters were fixed, the others remain the same.

On my setup the setting is in Configuration>DVB Inputs>TV Adapters>DibCom 7000PC>Services and is a per-channel setting. After setting it on all the channels and restarting tvheadend the program guide seems correct. It would be nice if there was a setting at the Multiplex level so that if new channels pop up they get the correct setting without intervention.

nf gb, if not all the characters are correct you probably need some other iso8859-X. Check this table to see if there's one that's related to where you're from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859#The_Parts_of_ISO.2FIEC_8859

Pedro,

On mine is also on channel level (maybe I didn't express myself very well - in portuguese would be a lot easier ;) )
I'm also tuning Portuguese DVB-T (TDT). It is ok now. I've forced an additional refresh on the epg. The strange thing is that on the first refresh it didn't update all the entries.