[mythtv-users] Unicode characters showing up as question marks [SOLVED]
Dave M G
martin at autotelic.com
Thu Jan 18 13:14:27 UTC 2007
MythTV,
Got it solved. To add new fonts for the OSD settings, one simply puts
the desired fonts into:
/usr/share/mythtv
Then go into mythfrontend->settings->TV set up->playback and a couple of
screens in there's a drop down menu for the "osd font".
I tried Microsoft's "Arial Unicode", but that didn't seem to fly. But
then, when looking around in my Linux fonts directory, I had a directory
called:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unicode_japanese
So I copied all the fonts from that directory, about 12 of them, to the
/usr/share/mythtv directory. I think symlinks would be okay too, but I
just copied them for now.
Then I went with a font called "kochi-gothic-subst.ttf" and made sure it
was selected in the settings.
Success! Now my on screen display shows the Japanese text for all the shows!
Hope that information can also help others.
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Dave M G
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