On Wed, Dec 02 2015, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> C S19.2E-133-3-263 SVM - GR\326D
>>
>> Would it be possible/easy to patch vdr to filter out such errors?
>> What is the right function to look at?
>
> Take a look at StripControlCharacters() or cEvent::FixEpgBugs() in epg.c.
It seems, that these functions only take care of the title and the
description, but not the channel name.
Finally, I've patched vdr like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- epg.c~ 2013-12-28 12:33:08.000000000 +0100
+++ epg.c 2015-12-06 15:54:58.312233837 +0100
@@ -1064,11 +1064,32 @@
}
}
+static char *StripFunny8bitCharacters(const char *src)
+{
+ static char dest[100];
+ strn0cpy(dest, src, 100);
+ char *s = dest;
+ int len = strlen(s);
+ while (len > 0) {
+ int l = Utf8CharLen(s);
+ uchar *p = (uchar *)s;
+ if (l == 1 && *p > 0x7F) { // this is not utf-8
+ memmove(s, p + 1, len); // we also copy the terminating 0!
+ len--;
+ l = 0;
+ }
+ s += l;
+ len -= l;
+ }
+ return dest;
+}
+
void cSchedule::Dump(FILE *f, const char *Prefix, eDumpMode DumpMode, time_t AtTime) const
{
cChannel *channel = Channels.GetByChannelID(channelID, true);
if (channel) {
- fprintf(f, "%sC %s %s\n", Prefix, *channel->GetChannelID().ToString(), channel->Name());
+ fprintf(f, "%sC %s %s\n", Prefix, *channel->GetChannelID().ToString(),
+ StripFunny8bitCharacters(channel->Name()));
const cEvent *p;
switch (DumpMode) {
case dmAll: {
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
It seems to work.
Would it be possible to integrate this patch into vdr?
--
Peter
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