Unicode / Chinese / Korean / Japanese / Thai / Hebrew (1 Viewer)
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Finally i was able to fetch and configure everything to get those files compiled. But as you already told, the resulting characters are really, really too tiny to read. Seems the 2048x2048 .png map. I haven't found the reason, why them are so tiny. The size parameter inside fonts.xml for that font13 could be set to any size it just doesn't matter they are so tiny as before.
If Mediaportal is used in FullScreen mode, the characters are even very blurred, so that's also not an option to achive bigger character size.
If Mediaportal is used in FullScreen mode, the characters are even very blurred, so that's also not an option to achive bigger character size.
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I have a lot of Chinese content so I did a quick fix to the MediaPortal source code for it to display Chinese - and any other Unicode character for that matter.
I can upload my source code and probably somebody can incorporate it into the trunk, if you can tell me the proper way to do it.
I also have some fix for WebEPG which might be useful as well.
I can upload my source code and probably somebody can incorporate it into the trunk, if you can tell me the proper way to do it.
I also have some fix for WebEPG which might be useful as well.
Yeah - please share everything that might help
OK, the two files I changed are in the zip file.
They are based off the current trunk.
Basically I used Direct3D Font objects to do the rendering for characters outside of the font engine range.
Although it's not as efficient as the built-in font engine, in my actual usage it's not bad at all, considering the benefits. When the characters are all within range, the built-in font engine is still called and there's very little added overhead.
I've read Direct3D Font used to be very slow, but starting with DirectX 9.0c its performance was vastly improved. That's probably why I noticed very little slowdown.
They are based off the current trunk.
Basically I used Direct3D Font objects to do the rendering for characters outside of the font engine range.
Although it's not as efficient as the built-in font engine, in my actual usage it's not bad at all, considering the benefits. When the characters are all within range, the built-in font engine is still called and there's very little added overhead.
I've read Direct3D Font used to be very slow, but starting with DirectX 9.0c its performance was vastly improved. That's probably why I noticed very little slowdown.
Here, this is the compiled version I'm using right now. Just put Core.dll in the MediaPortal directory to replace the old file.
You should probably use it on the 0.2.3.0 release version, not any SVN version, because the file is compiled form the 0.2.3.0 release version of the source code.
After using it for a few weeks the only problem I've noticed is when text is scrolling, the unicode text can get off the edge a little bit. Doesn't bother me.
Let me know if it works or not.
You should probably use it on the 0.2.3.0 release version, not any SVN version, because the file is compiled form the 0.2.3.0 release version of the source code.
After using it for a few weeks the only problem I've noticed is when text is scrolling, the unicode text can get off the edge a little bit. Doesn't bother me.
Let me know if it works or not.