The One Percent Club

[aeb001]

The 1 Percent Club UK < add to new shows

[BazzaG]

Thankyou Tiphanee

[Tiphanee]

Hi Adrian -

I added it earlier this afternoon. It will come through overnight.

Cheers,

Tiphanee

[aeb001]

oh ok as it airs tongiht some ppl may miss out on the show

[aeb001]

% is a html code & causes web errors

% is a special character in URLs, and must be encoded in them as %25. It is not a special character in HTML text, though it does also have a character entity that represents it, &percnt;.

The characters that must be represented as character entities in HTML are &, <, >, ' and ". They can be represented in HTML by &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &apos; and &quot; respectively.

I don't know why % is problematic in IceTV titles, but it's not because it's special in HTML text.

Its to do wth the show title being part of the url & therefore the % somehow corrupts it

[prl]

Its to do wth the show title being part of the url & therefore the % somehow corrupts it

That would only be if the % was not properly encoded in the URL. "The-1%-Club-UK" (as it might appear in a URL path component in, say, an entry in "My Shows") would properly be encoded as "The-1%25-Club-UK". That encoding should be done by the code that generates the HTML.

It's not the only issue with encoding of characters in IceTV. The encoding of text characters outside the ASCII range has long been broken in both the HTML and in the JSON data sent in the "new" IceTV API (e.g. for the "newer" Beyonwiz devices). That seems to have been "fixed" recently by avoiding those characters. For example, in The Wall, the lead character's name, Céline, is transliterated to Celine, avoiding, but not addressing, the problem.

[MD]

We're a small company and everyone does their best but there are only 24 hours in a day, and this issue is far down our priority list.  It has no effect on the enjoyment of our services and their consumption of recorded free to air TV.

[aeb001]

The 1 Percent Club Australia - 7HD, 7:30pm, Wed, 3 Apr 2024, 60 minutes < The 1 Percent Club UK - S03E02
https://www.yourtv.com.au/program/the-1-club/422049/

[Tiphanee]

Hi Adrian -

Yes, we're aware of this issue. These will need to be changed on the day of airing.

Chat soon,

Tiphanee

[BazzaG]

I suspect the problem here is that Seven is using the same name for both productions with only the pgm description  identifying that they are actually different.

FYI ... There's no Aussie version next week.

[prl]

We're a small company and everyone does their best but there are only 24 hours in a day, and this issue is far down our priority list.  It has no effect on the enjoyment of our services and their consumption of recorded free to air TV.

I appreciate that, but the problem with mangled UTF-8 encoding goes back literally years.