2018-01-24, 20:56
(2018-01-23, 16:21)Luke Cage Wrote:Thanks for the response. Yes I am running OSMC on top of Debian Stretch. The Arial Uni-code font that I am using is the Microsoft Font. Back in 2009, when I was stationed in Japan, I was able to purchase a personal use license for it. I will take a look at your links and see if I can find something that can be used.(2018-01-21, 08:18)linesma Wrote: Thank you for your hard work on this skin. I have been looking for a skin that I can customize for my "Stereo-Pi" project. I am using a 7" non-touchscreen display and the default skins for Kodi and OSMC are just unreadable at a distance. I know some of that is due to the small screen size, but even up close, the text size can be a little small. Your skin works awesome! The customization options are very thorough and easy to do.From the "-Pi" suffix in your project's name, I assume that you are running OSMC on top of Linux.
I had only 2 issues with the skin.
1. When you switch to the Arial Font, you lose the highlighting of menu items on the home screen. I have rebooted the system and checked the settings in the "Skin Customization" section. Everything looks like the highlighting should work, but it doesn't. I noticed this problem on Windows, Linux, and Android installs. This behavior was present even before I fixed problem number 2.
2. The included Arial font will not display Thai, Korean, Japanese and English characters at the same time. Since my native language is English, I keep the Kodi program in English, but I have several Music Videos, and Music artists from Thailand, Korea and Japan. This was no problem, since I had a Uni-code Arial font that I could use. I just replaced the default one with it.
All that being said, Thank you again for this skin. I really like it, and am thinking of replacing the default skin with it on all of my Kodi installs!
If you would like to see some pictures of the project, you can find them here: Stereo-Pi
There are several Arial alternatives (lookalikes based on Arial) available : http://dry.sailingissues.com/linux-equiv...arial.htmlBeware that the official Unicode enhanced Arial type, Arial Unicode MS, that is mentioned on that page is not free.
I would start out with FreeSans which has very good Unicode coverage. It's downloadable from here : https://github.com/opensourcedesign/fonts and here : http://www.fontspace.com/gnu-freefont/freesans and many other places.
Freefont family homepage and downloads : https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/ The Freefont family includes FreeMono, FreeSans, and FreeSerif.
Just trying to push you in the right direction.
EDIT: What I mean is that you have more than one option to help you with the first issue.
Thanks!