captioning of accented characters

vientito · 03-11-2011, 05:58 PM

I am using a BTTV device. bt878 to be precise to watch TV on my ubuntu. I am using ntsc-cc to dump all VBI captioning on my terminal yet I notice for all accented characters they are mapped to something else

è becomes �
é becomes \
ñ becomes ~
ç becomes {
à becomes �

Yet if viewed under tvtime all those accented characters just simply got replaced by blanks.

I have chosen fr locale hoping to correct the situation but it changes nothing.

Does anyone have any insight into this behaviour? Is there anyway to display the right character set?

tredegar · 03-12-2011, 11:23 AM

These i18n issues can be difficult to solve, but please tell us the output of

Code:

env | grep LANG

vientito · 03-13-2011, 05:20 PM

LANG=fr_CA
GDM_LANG=en_CA
LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr

vientito · 03-13-2011, 06:35 PM

i have a breakthrough. when I start using zvbi-ntsc-cc instead of ntsc-cc, all accented characters show normally

so it's a software inadequacy

tredegar · 03-14-2011, 02:39 PM

Quote:

so it's a software inadequacy

Or you do not have your character encoding set properly.

I am using:

Code:

tred@vaio2:~$ env | grep LANG
LANG=en_GB.utf8
GDM_LANG=en_GB.utf8
tred@vaio2:~$

Best wishes.