Help needed regarding charset issue in closed captions

  • Hello all,

    After many unsuccessful attempts to get my closed captions to show correctly in streams from my Tvheadend server I am turning to you for help.

    Problem: French accented characters are plainly missing from the captions. No characters whatsoever shown in their place.

    Setup:

    - KODI 17.6 running under libreelec 8.2.5 on a Chromebox

    - TVHeadend server 4.2.6-7

    - TVHeadend client 3.4.27.1 running on the same machine as the server

    - locale set to UTF-8, fr_CA

    - under KODI: settings>player>language>subtitle>character set I tried both "default" and "Western Europe (ISO)"

    The problem does not appear to depend on the tvheadend client, as I am getting the same problem when accessing the tvheadend server from a client running on a different machine.

    Thanks in advance for any tips/suggestions,

    Pierre