Problems with unicode in Alaska uni

grumpygamer · 2011-03-01 02:30

Hello there,
I have installed Alaska because it was the only one that blatantly supported unicode out of the box.

Once installed I made sure font was set to "Default" but I still got empty boxes instead of characters. If I then replace the arial.ttf font with arialuni.ttf and change the font setting to "Arial" instead of "Default", it works.

There must be something missing.
Any ideas?

-gg

Hitcher · 2011-03-01 08:43

What happens if you change from Default to Arial without replacing the font?

grumpygamer · 2011-03-01 11:00

Well I didn't try that since I was hoping to keep Alaska's font in the first place.
I thought Arial.ttf didn't have unicode support anyways, am I wrong?

epoke · 2011-03-01 16:24

Arial.ttf have full range unicode glyphs since Dharma beta1.
Check this -> http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6397

grumpygamer · 2011-03-01 19:22

oh, nice to know thanks for the info...
still I am puzzled as I thought Alaska wouldn't have to rely on the Arial font.
If I switch to Arial, I will loose some aspects of the Alaska layout.

Hitcher · 2011-03-01 20:05

That, unfortunately, is the price you pay.

Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,935 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2011-03-01 08:43 Post: #2 What happens if you change from Default to Arial without replacing the font?
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grumpygamer Member Posts: 94 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2011-03-01 11:00 Post: #3 Well I didn't try that since I was hoping to keep Alaska's font in the first place. I thought Arial.ttf didn't have unicode support anyways, am I wrong?
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epoke Senior Member Posts: 106 Joined: Jan 2006 Reputation: 0 Location: xbmc-korea.com	2011-03-01 16:24 Post: #4 Arial.ttf have full range unicode glyphs since Dharma beta1. Check this -> http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6397
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grumpygamer Member Posts: 94 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0	2011-03-01 19:22 Post: #5 oh, nice to know thanks for the info... still I am puzzled as I thought Alaska wouldn't have to rely on the Arial font. If I switch to Arial, I will loose some aspects of the Alaska layout.
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Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,935 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2011-03-01 20:05 Post: #6 That, unfortunately, is the price you pay.
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