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A new column has been added to show a [new] icon in the EPG grid. This is also visible in the EPG info dialog. A few other fields are now also displayed if available such as previous airdate.

The OTA eit scraper has been updated to add an "is_new" scraper which can set the "new" flag if it matches the common text fields such as programme title. The uk scraper contains an example configuration.

For xmltv, if "scrape credits and extra data" is enabled on the xmltv panel (configuration->channel/epg->epg grabber modules) then icons will also be displayed for some of the most common categories of programmes, such as sports, movie, etc. Otherwise, an icon is displayed for common genre categories that have been mapped from xmltv data or retrieved from the OTA guide.

I noticed in a screengrab that fonts supplied with some OSes do not display the colour icons by default and use a black and white icon instead. In Ubuntu, to display colour icons it may be necessary to:

sudo apt install fonts-emojione

Em Smith wrote:

I noticed in a screengrab that fonts supplied with some OSes do not display the colour icons by default and use a black and white icon instead. In Ubuntu, to display colour icons it may be necessary to:
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That is related with the client who load the page. Not with the server, right?

Yes, on the client. Sorry about not being clear.

Whether you need the package depends on how your machine is setup and which browser you use since many machines display the character icons fine in full colour, but some display just in black and white; others display some in colour and some others in black and white. It mainly depends on the default font, which browser you use, and how it handles certain character ranges.

I've been informed tonight that the emojione font package may alter your default font until it is uninstalled, so you may want to delay installing it.

We're discussing replacing the character images with icons to make the display consistent.