Funny characters in the cache files

dinkypumpkin dinkypumpkin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 02:28:16 PDT 2014


On 10/09/2014 00:19, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote:
> There's a TV programme at the moment named: "The £100k House".  In the
> tv.cache file, this programme's name is stored as: "The £100k House" - that
> is there's an unexpected character - hex &c2 - before the pound sign.  It

Open the cache file as UTF-8.

> means that a search for, say, "The £100" won't find this programme.
>
> I'm wondering if this is fixable?

A fix for using non-ASCII chars in search args is coming soon in the 
next release.



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