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i've downloaded a free .ttf with support for hangul (korean characters). i can get xbmc to properly display korean but i must be doing it the hard way.

- when i add a new .ttf font to the ./media/fonts directory it doesn't get picked up by xbmc (even after rebooting); i.e. the "settings -> appearance -> look and feel -> skin fonts" parameter only lists "default" and "arial".

i worked around this was by deleting the arial.ttf and renaming the korean.ttf to arial.ttf

my question is, why aren't .ttf fonts which are dropped into the fonts folder added to the list?

it's due to the way the font system works - it isn't really setup to handle ttf fonts in a nice way.

i am planning on redoing it once i get my current todo list reduced a bit. the plan is that it will be as easy as just dumping the new .ttf font in the appropriate folder.

cheers,
jonathan