String value encoding utf-8 to iso-8859-1

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Hi! I’m connecting OSMC to OpenHAB and first of all created “Now Playing: [%s]”.

I did:
String OSMC_Playing “Now Playing: [%s]” {xbmc=“<[#mainOSMC|Player.Title]”}

API is working fine, but string value looks like:

OSMC_Playing state updated to Китайский квартал

I’m using Russian Language in OSMC, as I can see the result is in UTF-8, but OpenHAB can’t convert it correctly into, for example, ISO-8859-1. It should look like:

OSMC_Playing state updated to Китайский квартал

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I’ve tried to change locales on my OSMC (running on RPi 2), and reached some progress - filenames in bash console new looks ok and and I can type with “RU” letters (previously I couldn’t do even that), but in OpenHAB there is still an issue.

Trying to find out what is wrong I tried to debug simply with curl:

curl --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '{ "id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetItem", "params": {"properties": ["title"], "playerid": 1}}' 'http://192.168.0.99/jsonrpc'

And I get right response:
{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":{"item":{"id":155,"label":"Миньоны","title":"Миньоны","type":"movie"}}}

But in events.log (and on webpage) I still see:
OSMC_Playing state updated to МиньонÑ

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Now I’ve set locale on Raspbian where OpenHAB installed to
en_US.ISO-8859-1
and now in events.log I see correct letters:

OSMC_Playing state updated to Миньоны

But in web I still get garbage:

Now Playing: МиньонÑ

Please guys, I feel resolving is near, help!

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Alright I have an update.

When in browser open hostname/openghab.app
I see charset=utf-8 inside page source, also Content-Type HTTP response header is charset=utf-8.

Ok, I’ve installed nginx as proxy and replaced Content-Type: header with charset=iso-8859-1 - characters on webpage were changed to another bad symbols - good point to start. BUT I’ve tried all charsets I know and could find - nothing give me good result. I’ve tried change View options in Firefox also - no result.

I really need help.

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Any help, please?

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I’ve got similar problem with french character “é”, “è”. Those character are remplaced by � in openhab logfile. My solution was to open my openhab .map file with an external editor, and save it with iso-8859 encoding. Now those character are corect in openhab log, but in the designer they are remplaced by �. It’s not the best solution, maybe somebody get a better solution?

Tom

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Also, there is information about character encoding in the wiki page

Look at the “Label text” and “transfomation” section.

There is also an other person asking for similar issue:

Hope It help!

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@Egor_Sushkov
Did you manage to solve it?

I’m having the same problem and still stuck at the same point you are…:frowning: