Help with Unicode (Traditional Chinese)

[manekineko]

following directions i found in these forums, i got arialuni.ttf from my windows install. i copied it to my xbox on /media/fonts/ and replaced arial.ttf with it.

i changed my skin fonts to arial ttf, and my charset to chinese traditional (big5). if i change the language to chinese (traditional) i can get my ui to display perfectly in chinese. however, when i view files via smb that are on my windows computer, a very weird effect happens, wherein xbmc can't decide what it wants to display, and the display of files is completely garbled with random text from all around the screen, and switches back and forth or shivers. when i play mp3s that have id3 tags encoded in unicode chinese, it displays garbled symbols and boxes.

what's going on here? ???

[Asteron]

can you view chinese language files on the local disk or from a cd?
also maybe the filenames arent in unicode and are in a chinese encoding? like is your computer set to display chinese by default in the region and languages section?

as you can tell i don't really know too much about this :)

[stevellion]

i do have this working fine on my xbox.
i run english for the ui but run the traditional chinese big5 font.
i see you've already got the arialuni.ttf installed - and we know yout ui is correct.

i did have similar problems though, to do with the actual files names and id3 tags - it seems that it could be your pc or the files are not encoded properly.

i actually like to use itunes to 'organise' the music on my disk, because it shuffles directories etc and allows quick editing on the id3 tags.. *then it also sets the filenames to the correct name, depending on the id3 tag. *you can configure itunes to store the music anywhere - so in fact my music is all on a server, seperate from the laptop. *then my xbox just plays the music from the same server.

see what itunes thinks of the filenames and id3 tags.

[manekineko]

itunes doesn't have any problem with the filenames or the id3 tags. displays them perfectly.

i don't believe the files are improperly encoded, since up until recently my computer (which is english xp) wasn't displaying my chinese files correctly. i then got a copy of a cd that was ripped to mp3 from a friend, and he took care to do it in unicode, and for the first time my computer is displaying chinese folders properly, and the id3 tags are coming out when playing back. i used a program he recommended, convertz to change some of my other id3 tags from big5 to unicode.

that's why i'm so confused, since it seems like these files have gotta be unicode yet they're not working.

[stevellion]

sounds strange.

i presume you're on a relatively recent version of xbmc?

do you have another pc you can confirm the smb share with - just to try to isolate if it's the xbox or the smb share?

does it make any difference if you use an english ui?

if you upgraded, did you clear the 0face008 files?

sorry, i can't think of much more.. it's puzzling, it seems like you're doing the right things anyway.

[manekineko]

sounds strange.

i presume you're on a relatively recent version of xbmc?

do you have another pc you can confirm the smb share with - just to try to isolate if it's the xbox or the smb share?

does it make any difference if you use an english ui?

if you upgraded, did you clear the 0face008 files?

sorry, i can't think of much more.. it's puzzling, it seems like you're doing the right things anyway.
i'm using the 10-17 build of xbmc.

i tried using another pc, and it can both display the files and the id3 tags over smb flawlessly.

using an english ui doesn't seem to make a difference either.

i haven't cleared out my face008 files in a while, i seem to recall a while back they said we could stop doing that?

i've also found another version of arialuni.ttf that i got from a link on another thread on this forum, and it doesn't help either.

[kraqh3d]

i haven't cleared out my face008 files in a while, i seem to recall a while back they said we could stop doing that?

it's not required everytime you upgrade, but its good practice to delete your settings if your having a problem.

[manekineko]

wow, i didn't have high hopes, and was resigned to a life without chinese display, but it worked! deleted both face008's and rebooted, reset all my settings, and chinese now works.

thanks all!

[stevellion]

great!

glad to know that fixed it. :cool:

[manekineko]

actually, i wonder if this is something i should file under bug reports?

i have it displaying simplified chinese perfectly. however, traditional chinese isn't working properly, and the display is corrupted. these are files that are encoded in unicode, and hence i have displaying in traditional just fine on my pc.

has anyone else found that traditional chinese doesn't work on xbmc?

[vaeanu]

i dont know wether or not my fonts are corrupted or what but trad. chinese used to work perfectly a while ago. however i havent got it to work with any build newer than 4 months...

[stevellion]

trad chinese is working just fine for me for my mp3's on my samba share.. can't speak for the ui..