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Kodi's DVBViewer client addon
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Unicode in DMS EPG #15

Closed SteenKA closed 7 years ago

SteenKA commented 7 years ago

I am Delphi in the DVBViewer forum and responsible for importing XMLTV EPG into the DVBViewer Media Server (DMS).

Seems to work fine in KODI, except for one minor thing:

If star-rating is present in the XMLTV file I use the unicode characters ★☆. In KODI they display as aquares.

The EPG from DMS is delivered as a UTF-8 encoded xml file.

Are characters in the EPG converted to the local codepage?

Or is there a setting?

kodiepg

manuelm commented 7 years ago

I already took a look at my code and the PVR is not doing any further encoding or charset conversion. Plot get's copied in https://github.com/manuelm/pvr.dvbviewer/blob/master/src/DvbData.cpp#L170 and passed to Kodi.

Since characters outside the ascii range work (e.g. the é in Khloé) it might be a font issue. Like the font doesn't have a star character. I'm not sure which font the default skin is using.

manuelm commented 7 years ago

Looks like the default font (NotoSans) of the default skin (estuary) doesn't support the star characters. If you change the skins font to Arial in Settings > Interface > Skin > Fonts the star characters are correctly shown.

SteenKA commented 7 years ago

Thanks. However, i could not find the font setting. I am a newbie, remember. I tried: click the "gears" icon at the main menu, then skin settings. Nothing here.

manuelm commented 7 years ago

You need to switch to Advanced or Expert first. http://kodi.wiki/view/Settings#Settings_levels

SteenKA commented 7 years ago

Got it. Looks nice. Since DVBViewer have users from many contries (Russia, China,...) I suggest considering making Arial the default font. Thanks

manuelm commented 7 years ago

I'm neither in charge of estuary nor anything outside of the PVR in general. So I'm the wrong person for this issue. You might want to open a issue in the Kodi bugtracker https://trac.kodi.tv/ but I doubt this issue justifies a change of the default font. Chinese and other users have to change the font aswell.

SteenKA commented 7 years ago

I won't go further with this. I consider the problem solved. How to mark as solved? I will write a note about it in one of the help files to Xepg and make a new post in the forum.

manuelm commented 7 years ago

Just close it :-)