[Lcdproc] Unicode characters

[Andrea Carpani]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * 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).


Thanks, I'll try this.
Anyone has such code in perl?

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