[mythtv] [PATCH] More CC stuff

Dan Morphis dan at milkcarton.com
Tue Mar 30 17:01:44 EST 2004


Gregorio, I imagined the easist way to do the special chars like the 
1/8th music note is to edit FreeMono.ttf and replace some of the upper 
special chars with the ones we want . . .

Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
>>>>>>Dan Morphis writes:
> 
> 
> d> Gregorio, one thing I'd like to see is support for special symbols
> d> like the music note symbol.  From what I've been able to infer from
> d> watching the captions go by, I believe its coded as "~/o"  I took a
> d> look at the code one day to try and impliment this, but couldn't quiet
> d> figure out where to start.  Maybe you have some pointers?
> 
>         In NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp, there's a "specialchar" array for
> the 16 special character codes and most of them are present.  Element
> 7 is supposed to be an eighth note but is represented as "o/~ ".  I
> couldn't find the right character to replace it but if you do, we can
> stick it in that array.
> 
>         There's also a list of extended character codes (0x12
> 0x20-0x3F, 0x13 0x20-0x3F) that are currently ignored.  They're listed
> at the end of this page:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/mcpoodle43/SCC_TOOLS/DOCS/CC_CHARS.HTML
> 
> Actually, this part looks easy enough to add so I can look into it.
> 
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