Since we encode the string, we should also decode it.

diff --git a/bin/mythtv-status b/bin/mythtv-status
index d3e36c8d379e2993c53adcd18a1cb66289650d73..d5f1d2317f291150c2a5003059d1f4e9e4f29af4 100755 (executable)
--- a/bin/mythtv-status
+++ b/bin/mythtv-status
@@ -1087,6 +1087,9 @@ sub xml_fetch {
     }
     $| = 0;
 
+    if (defined $content_type && $content_type =~ /utf(-)?8/i) {
+      $status = decode('UTF-8', $status);
+    }
     return ($content_type, $status);
   } else {
     # child