new tellico user

[mathieu.belleville at free.fr]

Hello and happy new year,

I am a new tellico user.
I used to manage my video collection using MySQL and a client I developped using
Tcl/Tk and sqlscreens, but having the database in the MySQL server area instead
of the user area makes backups and Linux distribution changes difficults.
Then I heard of Tellico, which does about everything I expected from such a
collection manager.
I even plan to create a CD, a Comics, and some books collections.

I modified my client to create a csv file, which I imported in tellico.
I encountered some locale issues, though, since the MySQL stuff is running under
Debian Sarge whose locale is ISO-8859-15, whereas tellico is running under
Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper, whose locale is UTF-8.
Some iconv stuff was required.

This locale issue is reapparing every now and then:
-The allocine.fr data source works in UTF-8, but the allocine web site expect
latin-1, but if I modify the python code to construct a latin-1 search url,
then this is tellico which is complaining that the XML is not OK (indeed, it
may contain some latin-1 instead of UTF-8, so is out of spec).
-The export to pilot-DB: my palm (tungsten T5) is set to latin-1. As far as I
know, there is no possibility to set the palm to UTF-8. In the tellico export
dialog, there was a section about locale, but it was greyed out, so I could not
 modify the locale to latin-1 instead of UTF-8. There might be something missing
in my Kubuntu installation or KDE settings.

All in all, a very good piece of software: felicitations.

Faithfully yours,
Mathieu Belleville.