Non-ASCII channel names in "Channel List Editor" turn into ???'s after editing

[tim copperfield]

Basically the title, and probably related to the other post about timers.xml saving as ASCII.

 

How to reproduce:

 

1) Open channel editor

2) Select channel by keyboard or mouse

3) Press F2 to edit channel name

4) Copy/type in ช่องทำอาหาร or anything else not ASCII

 

What happens:

Text is replaced with ? or .

 

What should happen:

 

Entered text should remain

 

[Griga]

Fixed in DVBViewer Pro 6.0.4 (just released).

 

However, that won't help permanently because the ??? will reappear after closing and re-opening DVBViewer. You already know why.

[tim copperfield]

27 minutes ago, Griga said:

Fixed in DVBViewer Pro 6.0.4 (just released).

 

Hopefully these fixes will eventually turn permanent, including saving.

 

It shouldn't even be that hard, have a pref to save as CP_ACP (whatever the current non-unicode locale is) or as UTF-8 w/correct XML header. Those who rely on broken add-ons that expect ASCII could leave this off.

Edited November 1, 2017 by tim copperfield

[tim copperfield]

I just installed DVBViewer again after years of not using it, and this bug is still here. It's 2021, can we have a way to save stuff as utf8 now?

[Griga]

No. If it were "not that hard", it would already been done.