[Lcdproc] Unicode characters

[Bernhard Walle]

* Andrea Carpani <andrea@carpani.net> [2007-04-16 14:59]:
> I'm using  lcdproc 0.5.1 and a hd44780 hardware. I have a small perl client 
> that works as a mp3 jukebox. Names for directories and files are unicode 
> encoded, and when I show them on my lcd I get - correct characters for 
> normal characters, - 2 weird characters for each character in the unicode 
> set: ü, à, è and so on.
> I need some help from you: is there a way I can see these chars correctly 
> on my LCD or I should try some sort of "normalization" when I display them?

AFAIK you have to convert unicode to iso-8859-1 before sending the
strings to lcdproc. I did this in my lcd-stuff client
(http://lcd-stuff.sf.net).


Regards,
  Bernhard