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Question about Unicode Characters - iceman20k - 2024-03-28
Hi all. Currently with Estuary Skin characters like this:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F7E2
are shown as boxes. Is there a way to show them correctly? Do i have to use a Unicode-Font and add it or am i doing something wrong with my strings?
Thanks for any help on it!
RE: Question about Unicode Characters - scott967 - 2024-04-29
In general, support for unicode outside the BMP in Kodi is spotty. Kodi provides a font file for a modified DejaVu Sans font filename arial.ttf that provides good, but not complete, coverage of the BMP but nothing beyond that. Currently, the default sqlite database can store unicode utf-8 encoding for these codepoints, but the optional MySQL does not so storing in the library can be an issue.
Unfortunately there isn't a fall-back mechanism for skin fonts, so to incorporate something like Noto Emoji (which has a proper license for distribution with Kodi) you have to either specify specific font entries in fonts.xml or mash Noto Emoji into your existing font (not a trivial project with freeware font tools).
scott s.
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RE: Question about Unicode Characters - iceman20k - 2024-05-01
Thank you for your extensive explanation! For now i just string.replace'ed them with "". But i'll try out the arial.ttf
