Re: [Xmltv-devel] New grabber for Sweden

[Ed A. <ed...@me...>]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Mattias Holmlund wrote:

>I see that you are using channel-ids in the form channelname.comhem.se

>According to the XMLTV-DTD, the channel-id should conform to
>rfc2838. It specifies that they should be based on the
>dns-information for the television companies, e.g.
>barnkanalen.svt.se, tv3.se etc. This is the way that tv_grab_se
>currently handles them. Apart from what the xmltv-dtd says, I think
>it would be very good if we could use the same channel-ids in all
>grabbers for Sweden.

foo.comhem.se is acceptable as a unique identifier, but yes it is best
to have the same ids so people can more easily switch between
grabbers.  The normal way to do this is with a channel_ids file that
maps the site channel id to an xmltv id.

>When I run you grabber, I get a bunch of these errors:
>
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6e,
>immediately after start byte 0xe5) in pattern match (m//) at
>./tv_grab_se_comhem line 335.

I think you could work around this by setting LC_ALL=C but the right
way to fix them is to remove non-ASCII characters from the code and
use \123 escapes instead.

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Ed Avis <ed...@me...>