Encoding issue of movie names on Ubuntu/Linux

[scakemyer]

As reported by nkgx on the forum, and I'm also seeing this in a VM:

@i96751414 anything in the translation system regarding encoding you think might be causing this?

[i96751414]

Unfortunately Python is the worst thing regarding this... Can you give me more details? Like language, which section is that, so I can reproduce the same here

[scakemyer]

English, movies only, shows seem fine. No idea if it's from the daemon, in or because of translations on the Python side, or in the json between both. My first guess is with GetLocalizedString() doing .encode('utf-8') on all labels.

[assapir]

duplicate of ‫#23 ?

[scakemyer]

Yes it is, but I'll mark #23 as the duplicate since the problem isn't just with Hebrew

[assapir]

Not already fixed?

[scakemyer]

Is it? Haven't tested yet with the new encoding fixes.

[assapir]

I don't see this problem any more. (Although now I use the translated titles, so lets wait for others input).

[assapir]

Ok, this problem is still presents. also for director name, elso not only on Ubuntu (I am using Arch linux ARM)

[scakemyer]

I tried debugging that for a while yesterday, the daemon is sending the right names and everything. Right up to feeding the list item's label and all, no matter what I tried, encoded as strings or unicode or ascii, Kodi chews them up in xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItems. I can't find a shred of logic to explain why it's doing that...

[tobiasvandriessel]

Very strange, on my Debian/Linux it's also present.

[infinicode]

Same problem here with Ubuntu 15.10 Wily. Lang is set in both Ubuntu and Kodi to en_US. I've setup the option "use_original_title" to "true", and still the same problem for movie names.

The daemon seems to working correctly, as the information exposed by the API seem to be correct too.

If I can help to debug just let me know.

[infinicode]

The problem seems to be related with Kodi itself. I've upgraded Kodi to the unstable branch and everything works perfectly, both movies and tv shows.

Version of Kodi with the error: 2:15.2git20151101.0902-final-0wily
Version of Kodi without the error: 2:16.0git20160205.0918-rc3-0wily

[scakemyer]

There's just no way this wasn't caused by Kodi, and I finally found the bug report: http://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/16414

[scakemyer]

I'm afraid the only fix is to upgrade to Jarvis, as it was included in beta-5. Finally closing this one, there's nothing more we can do since it's a memory corruption issue in XBMCAddon::Dictionary when using the new C++11 ABI in gcc 5.1 and up