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johnmarsden
Visitor
8 years ago

Accessing characters in Latin Extended Additional? They're boxes right now.

How do you get Latin Extended Additional characters to show up? Even with the system font, they're just showing boxes. For example: "Ḁ ḁ Ḉ Ḍ ḓ ḗ Ḡ Ḳ"  While all those characters work on the web wit...
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RokuKC
Roku Employee
8 years ago
"johnmarsden" wrote:
How do you "map the characters properly"? 

If I'm using Helvetica which is capable of displaying them: Ḁ ḁ Ḉ Ḍ ḓ ḗ Ḡ Ḳ   Then shouldn't that work? I've tested that it works in browsers and stuff with various fonts, but using those same fonts won't show the characters Roku.


You shouldn't have to do anything other than using a font that includes those characters in its repertoire.

Where did you get your Helvetica font file? Have you verified that the .ttf / .otf has glyphs defined at those Unicode code points, and that the string/text you are trying to display has the corresponding Unicode character values?

I did a quick test with some of those characters and they displayed as expected using a Google Noto font.
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ABDev25
Newbie
7 months ago

I have a similar issue except instead of boxes the Roku is displaying unicode. For items like commas, apostrophes, ampersands, letters with accents, < > - it refuses to display the character. What's very interesting is that Roku displays unicode for {  but it does display } as a character. When we input japanese characters it also does not yield a rectangle.

We had coded an MVP which displayed all the proper characters (and rectangles for japanese characters which was fine) - however now as we are pushing directly from Roku we have lost our ability to display characters and it displays unicode instead.

How can we fix this? RokuKC