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i made simplified chinese font in xpr format. how to use it with the cvs build?
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i noted that smbdirectory.cpp unconditionally call g_charsetconverter.utf8tostringcharset(dirent->name, strfile), which convert unicode file name to native encoding, the file name then will be converted back from native encoding to unicode before it is displayed, this does not make much sense.
also xdk suggests using ttf font should be avoided since it degrades performance a lot. anyway bitmap font is for console and ttf font is for office application.
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kimp93
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droopy,
i've used bitmap font(xpr) for korean almost 5 months with modified xbmc.
number of basic korean characters are about 2000.
with this setup, bitmap font itself take about 6mb of memory.
if i use bigger font or different font size for skin, it will take more than 10mb. also bitmap subtitle font take about another 6mb.
then what happen is there isn't enough memory for video playing. most of movie file plays fine. but some of them crash, because of memory.
if you use bitmap font for chinese, it will took almost double size of memory compare to korean font. so you may not play anything except running xbmc.
because of that, i think turetype font support is critical especially for chinese.
performance of ttf font in xbmc is not bad at all. why don't you try this first!
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problem solved..... :kickass: :fixed: :thumbsup:
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gwlip
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hi yuvalt,
great work again. just a minor issue with the weather. the deg celsius symbols do not work correctly.
my settings are as follows:-
resolution:- ntsc 4:3
language:- english
skin fonts:- arial ttf (arialuni.ttf taken from msoffice 2003)
charset:- chinese traditional (big 5) or chinese simplified (gbk) both will display an unknown chinese character instead of the degrees celsius symbol.
hope you can fix this as well.. thanks a million again!
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gwlip
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ok sorry.. another question/ problem.
i am able to read, access my mp3, acc song files in my pc through smb. but how can i copy them over to the xbox?
using xbmc file copy and paste from source to destination doesn't work .. yuvalt, is this something that cannot be fixed?
is there another way to transfer the chinese font files from pc to xbox? i tried using ftp (flashfxp) as well but that doesnt work...
thanks again..