[mythtv] Unicode in OSD

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Tue Aug 5 12:06:47 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:58 am, foofoo wrote:
> I've seen that.
> A) you need to use true type font that supports Unicode (don't remember now
> if the one that myth is using by default does).
> B) there seems to be some kind of a problem in the sterilization process
> the text is going through, its forced to be latin1 when sent from the
> backend to the frontend (although the last time I've checked it was around
> the .7 release).

Anything that can't easily be converted to latin1 can't be displayed at all by 
the current OSD font drawing routines..  someone'll need to fix that up.

Isaac


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