Re: Change display-name for xml file

Hi Nick,

I'm using tv_grab_search_ch which as far as I know scrapes the data from a website.

cheers,
markus
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> Datum: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:16:22 +0000
> Von: Nick Morrott <[email protected]>
> An: Using the xmltv programs <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Re: [xmltv-users] Change display-name for xml file

> On 4 March 2011 09:04, markus frei <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use xmltv together with tvtime and freevo (Linux Mint) and am based in
> switzerland.
> >
> > I have one issue, and that is that the display names generated by the
> grabber don't necessarily match with the channel names I have used in my
> other Apps. Where can I change that display name so it stays? One of the
> problems with this is that some of the display names use special characters with
> "Umlaut", and those aren't accepted properly by the OS.
> 
> Markus,
> 
> Which grabber are you using? Is the Umlaut problem occuring because
> the grabber is not correctly encoding the character or because your OS
> does not support them at all?
> 
> Display names of channels seen in XMLTV output are usually created in
> one of a few ways:
> 
> i) hard-coded in the grabber itself;
> ii) included in listings data downloaded by the grabber (i.e. when
> scraping a webpage or in pre-compiled XML data);
> iii) included in a supplemental file that the grabber uses (e.g. a
> channel_ids file).
> 
> I am only familiar with the uk_rt and _fr grabbers. In the case of
> uk_rt the channel display names are controlled (by me) in a file that
> the grabber retrieves at run-time. In the case of uk_rt it is possible
> to edit this file locally and control display names yourself, but this
> is not the case for all grabbers.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 
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