Can anyone direct me as to how I go about actually displaying Thai characters for Thai subtitles?
I'm using Gotham 13.1 and latest ACE theme.
I'm sure it must be some system font issue and have tried setting a Thai font in the Subtitles setting but all I get are square blocks being dusplayed.
Does anyone have a clue because my clues have run out
Thanks
Martin
Well you have a couple things to work through. I know nothing about Thai, but it appears most likely that the subtitle file you use is either going to be encoded in 8 bit format using the TIS-620 encoding, or in multi-byte UTF-8 encoding. UTF-8 encoded subtitles should work OK, but I think for any 8 bit encoding you need to tell XBMC what encoding to use via the subtitle settings menus (in Gotham I see an option for Thai (WIndows)).
Regardless, the skin fonts need a representation of the Thai characters, and Ace skin does not have these so you get boxes for the missing characters. Try using Confluence with the Arial font.
scott s.
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I actually eventually tracked it all down and is working for me
Bear in mind I am using OpenElec here so apologies if this doesn't work for another installation.
Download arialuni.ttf from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/allfonts...rce=navbar
For OpenElec:
Copy to /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts
Change subtitle font for System in Settings/Video/Subtitles - Text to use for text subtitles
Note: I found many subtitles listed as Thai language were not actually Thai. This might have been caused by saving in the wrong encoding format. But check you have got a Thai language subtitle each and every time.
Hope this helps you get going. Works for me now and my Thai girlfriends are so happy