Karaoke lyrics does not support unicode [Archive]

digital21cn

2009-04-08, 18:38

When i put a lyrics file with the same file name with mp3 songs to the same folder and enable the karaoke function in XBMC settings, the lyrics appears upon playing the songs. However, it appears that unicode is not supported. The Chinese characters in the lyrics file are not correctly displayed. Please help solve the problem.

I feel a debug log is not needed for this issue. I use win7 build 7000 version. I tried several svn versions (including 18623) of xbmc, and it seems the problem is not solved.

thanks in advance.

bb10

2009-04-08, 18:43

When i put a lyrics file with the same file name with mp3 songs to the same folder and enable the karaoke function in XBMC settings, the lyrics appears upon playing the songs. However, it appears that unicode is not supported. The Chinese characters in the lyrics file are not correctly displayed. Please help solve the problem.

I feel a debug log is not needed for this issue. I use win7 build 7000 version. I tried several svn versions (including 18623) of xbmc, and it seems the problem is not solved.

thanks in advance.

Have you tried using a unicode font like arial unicode?

digital21cn

2009-04-08, 18:49

Have you tried using a unicode font like arial unicode?

I've already tried to do so by saving the whole lyrics file to unicode format. But it turns even worse - no lyrics displayed this time :(:sad:

bb10

2009-04-08, 18:55

I've already tried to do so by saving the whole lyrics file to unicode format. But it turns even worse - no lyrics displayed this time :(:sad:

No, i mean in the font in xbmc. Place the arial unicode MS font in Program Files/XBMC/media/Fonts and rename it to arial.ttf.

digital21cn

2009-04-08, 19:25

No, i mean in the font in xbmc. Place the arial unicode MS font in Program Files/XBMC/media/Fonts and rename it to arial.ttf.

Oh, this is a basic setting and first of all I will place a arial unicode MS font and rename it immediately after I download a new version and install it to my computer. Because normally I use Chinsese chracters for menus, subtitles, etc. The unicode chracters are displayed perfectly on other areas. However, for lyrics, it displays incorectly.

spiff

2009-04-08, 19:29

as always text formats are a pain. there are no charset tags so the best we can do is a guess. i'll ask oldnemesis to add the guessing code

igsolt

2009-04-08, 22:42

There is a setting -Charset in karaoke section :nod:

digital21cn

2009-04-09, 17:49

thanks. hope the team to fixed it...

taxigps

2009-04-11, 13:09

I have submitted a patch(http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/6321) to fix this bug.