[madcat]

I was wondering how to view chinese characters in xbmc under Ubuntu? At the moment, I can only see boxes in subtitles and file names which represent characters. I've obtained arialuni.tff from my font folder but I don't know where and how to put them in xbmc under Ubuntu. Can anyone help me?

[dewen]

I am Linux newbee, too. my stupid method, also works for xbmc lives

first rename the new multi-language font file to arial.ttf
then in winxp, install winscp and use it to FTP the new arial.ttf to /home/xbmc/
if you have UBUNTU full install XBMC , you can copy it by USB thumb drive under UBUNTU.

for XBMC Lives :
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in xbmc, press ctrl-alt-f1 into terminal mode,
user : xbmc
password : xbmc

PHP Code:

cd  /usr/share/xbmc/media/Fonts/ 


PHP Code:

ls 


<---- the command same as dir, you should see the old arial.ttf

PHP Code:

sudo cp /home/xbmc/arial.ttf  arial.ttf 


<-- copy new font replace old

ctrl-alt-f7 back to xbmc
restart XBMC

choose arial.ttf and change the region....

for UBUNTU XBMC
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just open terminal, and do the same as above

cd /usr/share/xbmc/media/Fonts/
sudo cp /home/xbmc/arial.ttf arial.ttf

hope this helps.

my arial.ttf 14478524 byte use it from old xbox time....

[madcat]

Hey, thanks for replying! I got the subtitle to work... Cheers!! One more thing is to get the filenames to show the characters...how do I do that?

[TREX6662k5]

Change the font to Arial in Apparence Settings.

[madcat]

I've tried changing the to Arial in Apparence Settings...it doesn't work!

[BurningSky]

I know this thread is old, but I have a question about adding fonts.

Is this the only way to add new fonts or can I also use the method explained in the Ubuntu Wiki?

If I add new fonts to Ubuntu (not to the XBMC directory), is XBMC able to use them for videos with ASS subtitles or something else?