Nayef Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 (edited) i have some issue via "favourites.xml" not support Arabic characters in DMC but working fine in DVBViewer i try change encoding "favourites.xml" to UTF-8 but file not work in kodi Edited October 6, 2017 by Nayef Quote Link to comment
nuts Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 This is a problem in Kodi? Then you should report this to Kodi devs. Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 What is the language for non-Unicode programs on the PC where the DMS and DVBViewer are? https://www.digitalcitizen.life/changing-display-language-used-non-unicode-programs Is it the same language as the general language of this PC? Quote Link to comment
Nayef Posted October 11, 2017 Author Share Posted October 11, 2017 On 10/8/2017 at 9:37 AM, Griga said: What is the language for non-Unicode programs on the PC where the DMS and DVBViewer are? https://www.digitalcitizen.life/changing-display-language-used-non-unicode-programs On 10/8/2017 at 9:37 AM, Griga said: Is it the same language as the general language of this PC? i set here: Arabic https://www.digitalcitizen.life/sites/default/files/gdrive/non_unicode_language/non_unicode_3.jpg and my language in list DVBViewer https://i.imgur.com/SjQ30Ai.jpg ya . same language as the general language of this PC Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 I have spent some time with setting my PC to different languages and can now reproduce the problem. It does happen with Arabic and also with Russian letters (and I guess with every language that uses non-latin characters). Favourite folders and favourite channels with such characters are not displayed correctly in Kodi. However, channel names (from the channellist) are displayed correctly. I think it happens because the DVBViewer add-on for Kodi accesses the file favourites.xml and can't translate the content to Unicode (the header says the encoding is UTF-8 but actually it is not). This is the wrong method. The add-on should use /api/getchannelsxml.html?favonly=1 for getting the favourites in the same way as the channel list. This method delivers all names as Unicode, so the add-on does not have to mess around with the favourites.xml. It would be good if you could post the issue here https://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=219 and provide a link to your DVBViewer Forum topic in this post. Quote Link to comment
CiNcH Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Quote The add-on should use /api/getchannelsxml.html?favonly=1 Should already be the case, see this commit. Before that, the add-on read favs via getfavourites.xml. This was changed in June and got released with DVBViewer add-on version 3.05. @Nayef, can you check your Kodi and DVBViewer add-on version? Are you using a locally stored favourites.xml file in Kodi? Also pinging @manül on this. Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Yesterday I've updated Kodi from 17.0 to 17.4. The DVBViewer Add-On 2.4.11 tells me that there is no update available. BTW: With this combo I've experienced several hard crashes under Windows 8.1 causing Kodi to freeze or to be closed by Windows, which made testing quite cumbersome, and I learned to keep the mouse cursor away from the TV and Radio menu items while the add-on ist starting / updating the channel list / EPG... even mouse over had to be avoided. But that's a different topic. Quote Link to comment
manül Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Griga said: Yesterday I've updated Kodi from 17.0 to 17.4. The DVBViewer Add-On 2.4.11 tells me that there is no update available. 3.x.y is only compatible and shipped with Leia/nightly. @NayefIf you're running Kodi on Windows you can also try https://ci.appveyor.com/project/manuelm/pvr-DVBViewer/build/Krypton-060c116/artifacts which includes backports from Nightly for Krypton. However not tested and no version bump. So make sure the addon really gets overwritten. e.g. by checking if support for Wake on Lan is available in the PVR settings. Also since this is a issue with Kodi this is clearly the wrong forum. Edited October 12, 2017 by manül Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Anyway, I've learned a lot about the twists and turns of DVBViewer/DMS character coding, which was the main purpose of my activities. It's a miracle that at least some channel names are still readable after they finally arrived in Kodi Quote Link to comment
CiNcH Posted October 12, 2017 Share Posted October 12, 2017 Quote BTW: With this combo I've experienced several hard crashes under Windows 8.1 causing Kodi to freeze or to be closed by Windows, which made testing quite cumbersome, and I learned to keep the mouse cursor away from the TV and Radio menu items while the add-on ist starting / updating the channel list / EPG... even mouse over had to be avoided. But that's a different topic. PVR startup indeed used to be quite flaky. Improved a lot in Leia nightlies though. Quote Link to comment
Nayef Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 13 hours ago, CiNcH said: Should already be the case, see this commit. Before that, the add-on read favs via getfavourites.xml. This was changed in June and got released with DVBViewer add-on version 3.05. @Nayef, can you check your Kodi and DVBViewer add-on version? Are you using a locally stored favourites.xml file in Kodi? Also pinging @manül on this. addon kodi is 2.4.11 i don't using a locally stored "favourites.xml" file Quote Link to comment
Nayef Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 12 hours ago, manül said: 3.x.y is only compatible and shipped with Leia/nightly. @NayefIf you're running Kodi on Windows you can also try https://ci.appveyor.com/project/manuelm/pvr-DVBViewer/build/Krypton-060c116/artifacts which includes backports from Nightly for Krypton. However not tested and no version bump. So make sure the addon really gets overwritten. e.g. by checking if support for Wake on Lan is available in the PVR settings. Also since this is a issue with Kodi this is clearly the wrong forum. i try : https://ci.appveyor.com/project/manuelm/pvr-DVBViewer/build/Krypton-060c116/artifacts v2.4.13 = ok ! thanks ! Quote Link to comment
Nayef Posted October 13, 2017 Author Share Posted October 13, 2017 13 hours ago, manül said: 3.x.y is only compatible and shipped with Leia/nightly. @NayefIf you're running Kodi on Windows you can also try https://ci.appveyor.com/project/manuelm/pvr-DVBViewer/build/Krypton-060c116/artifacts which includes backports from Nightly for Krypton. However not tested and no version bump. So make sure the addon really gets overwritten. e.g. by checking if support for Wake on Lan is available in the PVR settings. Also since this is a issue with Kodi this is clearly the wrong forum. you have v2.4.13 for Android system ? Quote Link to comment
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