Episode title in foreign characters
#1
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I'm running Gotham 13.2 on Windows 7 x64.

I'm using local .NFO files to manage my TV shows. Everything works fine except XBMC cannot display Chinese characters in episode title. It can display Chinese characters in TV show title though.

I was wondering if the show title and episode title are displayed with different fonts or different software modules?

File structure:

D:\TVShows\West
D:\TVShows\West\tvshow.nfo
D:\TVShows\West\west.ep01.mkv
D:\TVShows\West\west.ep01.nfo

tvshow.nfo

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<tvshow>
    <title>Î÷ÓμÇ</title>
    <season>-1</season>
</tvshow>

west.ep01.nfo

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="GB2312" standalone="yes" ?>
<episodedetails>
        <title>Î÷ÓμÇTEST</title>
</episodedetails>

Yes, there are some scrambled characters there. It's because the NFO files are saved in ANSI format and cannot display Chinese properly. Once I set the XBMC language to Chinese, it can display the show title properly. But it doesn't display the episode title in Chinese properly. It'll just display the scrambled characters.

Any idea, how XBMC treats them differently? Thanks!

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#2
As I wrote in your other thread, you need to encode your nfo files using the UTF-8 encoding (and use a unicode font with coverage of CJK characters in your skin of course).

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#3
Scott,

Thank you very much for the tips!

Now another newbie question - how do I "use a unicode font with coverage of CJK characters"? I wanted to use English as GUI language but still able to display CJK in titles. Thanks again!
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