[mythtv] how to allow Chinese TTF font in OSD?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 13:27:33 UTC 2008


On 17/12/2008, Clark Lee <clarkchen900 at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> There is still another problem that prevent the OSD to correctly display Chinese titles / subtitles.
> I found that the OSD font is set at:
>
> TV settings->Playback OSD->OSD font
>
> Where there is only a few FreeSans/MONO.ttf is supported. I have other TTF Chinese font installed in my linux machine.
> What if I want add Chinese font in the OSD font list here? I guess some changes in code needed. And, TrueTypeFont is required, right?

this might be relevant

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/255432?search_string=japanese;#255432

which refers to

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Utf8_Text_in_OSD

However, the changes "break" the mythtv database so I wouldn't
recommend it, particularly if you're going to roll it out to 1.3bn
users.

I looked into it to fix some of the European accented characters I
see, but decided not to bother.

It gives you something to read if nothing else.


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