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Subject: Character encoding
Hello all,

I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but I couldn't find
the answer by searching, and I've tried to fix it.

I use xmltv to pull down tv listings, and it works fine. I use the
uk_rt listings.

At the top of the output file is : encoding="ISO-8859-1"
In the file though, whenever "foreign films" are on, I see the following:

<title>Am<C8><A8>lie</title>

Now, the actual word is Amélie, so it's trying to say é.

I can't find c8a8 anywhere though, relating to é
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00e9/index.htm

I've used iconv to try converting to and from various charsets.
I've tried lots of other things that I can't remember. This problem
has been bugging me for a while now, and I give up.
Is it just malformed when it comes to me, or is it something on my box
that's mashing it up?

Here's some bumpf.
2.6.17.13 #2 PREEMPT Tue Oct 24 21:10:37 BST 2006 x86_64 AMD
Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux
app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.04.1
dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2
dev-perl/Archive-Tar-1.29
dev-perl/Archive-Zip-1.16
dev-perl/BerkeleyDB-0.29
dev-perl/CDDB_get-2.23
dev-perl/Class-MethodMaker-2.08
dev-perl/Compress-Zlib-1.35
dev-perl/Convert-TNEF-0.17-r2
dev-perl/Convert-UUlib-1.06
dev-perl/Crypt-DES-2.03-r1
dev-perl/Crypt-SSLeay-0.49
dev-perl/Crypt-SmbHash-0.02
dev-perl/DBD-mysql-3.0004
dev-perl/DBI-1.50
dev-perl/DateManip-5.42a-r1
dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1
dev-perl/Digest-MD4-1.5
dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.07
dev-perl/Email-Find-0.09
dev-perl/Email-Valid-0.175
dev-perl/Exporter-Lite-0.01
dev-perl/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.18
dev-perl/HTML-FromText-2.05
dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.34-r1
dev-perl/HTML-Tagset-3.03-r2
dev-perl/HTML-Template-2.6-r1
dev-perl/IO-Multiplex-1.08
dev-perl/IO-Socket-INET6-2.51
dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-0.96
dev-perl/IO-String-1.08
dev-perl/IO-Zlib-1.04
dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.110
dev-perl/Lingua-EN-Numbers-Ordinate-1.02
dev-perl/Lingua-Preferred-0.2.4
dev-perl/Log-TraceMessages-1.4
dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.420
dev-perl/MP3-Info-1.02-r1
dev-perl/Mail-SPF-Query-1.999.1
dev-perl/MailTools-1.74
dev-perl/Net-CIDR-Lite-0.20
dev-perl/Net-DNS-0.53-r1
dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.39
dev-perl/Net-IP-1.24
dev-perl/Net-SNMP-5.2.0
dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25
dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018
dev-perl/Socket6-0.17
dev-perl/Sys-Hostname-Long-1.4
dev-perl/Term-ProgressBar-2.09
dev-perl/TermReadKey-2.21
dev-perl/Text-Iconv-1.4
dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.21-r1
dev-perl/URI-1.31
dev-perl/Unicode-String-2.09
dev-perl/Unix-Syslog-0.100-r1
dev-perl/XML-Filter-BufferText-1.01
dev-perl/XML-Handler-YAWriter-0.23-r1
dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09
dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34
dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.14-r1
dev-perl/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44-r1
dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.26
dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.601
dev-perl/XML-XPath-1.13
dev-perl/extutils-parsexs-2.15
dev-perl/libwww-perl-5.79
dev-perl/libxml-perl-0.08
dev-perl/module-build-0.28.05
dev-perl/net-server-0.94
dev-perl/yaml-0.62
perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.33
perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.20
perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.00
perl-core/PodParser-1.32
perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.18
perl-core/Test-Harness-2.56
perl-core/digest-base-1.05
perl-core/libnet-1.16
sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r1
virtual/perl-DB_File-1.814
virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.36
virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.35
virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.07
virtual/perl-PodParser-1.34
virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.18
virtual/perl-Storable-2.15
virtual/perl-Test-Harness-2.56
virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.62
virtual/perl-Text-Balanced-1.95
virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.86
virtual/perl-libnet-1.19


Anyone have any ideas?

C

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