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p2premote
Visitor
14 years ago

chinese characters can not be dislayed

I tried to use the roku ui component to display Chinese characters (title, description etc), but them simply won't show up.

Is there a way to work around this problem?
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  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    You will probably need to develop your own screen using roScreen and roFontResource with a Chinese TTF font.

    -Joel
  • p2premote's avatar
    p2premote
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    is there any document about roFontResource? I can not find it in the sdk documentations. And nothing shows up with google....
  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    sorry, its roFont and roFontRegistry, and the docs are in the Brightscript Reference Manual.

    - Joel
  • p2premote's avatar
    p2premote
    Visitor
    14 years ago
    I saw roFontRegistry in the component reference but no roFont everywhere, where is it?

    Also, the chinese fonts are all very large (about 6M), am not able to bundle thew in the app due to the size. Is it other way to get them into the system?

    Thanks.
  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    roFont is in the Brightscript manual, where pretty much all the new features are.

    Maybe there is a smaller font you can find? If not, then you can use roURLTransfer gettofile() or asyncGettoFile() to download to tmp:/ but 6mb is a significant bandwidth hit if you have lots of users (although, nothing near the bandwidth cost of streaming video).

    A quick google search for Chinese fonts file size comes up with quite a variety of fonts.

    - Joel