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<blockquote data-quote="ripk" data-source="post: 826837" data-attributes="member: 90629">Hello all,I think I've found a potential problem in the way the fonts are cached in Mediaportal - the caching is performed for characters in the active locale only! For example, I have set up my installation in English language, but I'm using UTF-encoded information in EPG to display content that contais Croatian characters. As a consequence, any string that contains accented characters will not be rendered in the correct font. I'm using StreamedMP but as far as I understand, caching is done on the systems-level and all skins may be sensitie to this problem.I spent a lot of time to diagnose this problem - the fonts used in StreamedMP all have accented characters and they refused to display! Until finally I had a look at the content of the cached font bitmaps and discovered that my chars are not there <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> If I switch the language of Mediaportal to Croatian, then everything gets displayed in the correct font, but I have translations in my menus, whic I do not want. The solution would be to cache ALL characters in a font, regardless of the encoding of the Mediaportal language.I've attached a screenshot to demonstrate the problem.K</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ripk, post: 826837, member: 90629"] Hello all, I think I've found a potential problem in the way the fonts are cached in Mediaportal - the caching is performed for characters in the active locale only! For example, I have set up my installation in English language, but I'm using UTF-encoded information in EPG to display content that contais Croatian characters. As a consequence, any string that contains accented characters will not be rendered in the correct font. I'm using StreamedMP but as far as I understand, caching is done on the systems-level and all skins may be sensitie to this problem. I spent a lot of time to diagnose this problem - the fonts used in StreamedMP all have accented characters and they refused to display! Until finally I had a look at the content of the cached font bitmaps and discovered that my chars are not there :) If I switch the language of Mediaportal to Croatian, then everything gets displayed in the correct font, but I have translations in my menus, whic I do not want. The solution would be to cache ALL characters in a font, regardless of the encoding of the Mediaportal language. I've attached a screenshot to demonstrate the problem. K [/QUOTE]

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