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Hello!
I've got a problem with special characters like the cross character from the first Justice album. The character is not displayed in the album list, although I tagged the files with MusicBrainz Picard. There's no problem with Cyrillic characters, for example.
How so?
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Moved to Music.
Can you provide the link for the album to the MusicBrains Picard site.
Also a screenshot of the album list showing the problem, wouldn't hurt either.
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(This post was last modified: 2019-01-21, 12:13 by ronie.)
the font file used by estuary doesn't contain many symbols.
if you switch to the arial based font (settings interface > skin > fonts) there's a reasonable chance the album title will show correctly,
as this font contains many more characters than the default estuary font.
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Thank you!
That's the explanation. I'll try it as soon as possible.
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A quick inspection shows the release title is U+271D (LATIN CROSS) and Kodi Arial font does indeed have coverage of that codepoint.
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It's true, Arial is very versatile, a real workhorse, but it lacks elegance.
It is possible to compile your own font and add the special characters for a specific language. That would imply building your own Kodi at this point, though. Maybe this is something the devs could look into for Kodi v19.
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Aeon MQ5 Leia Mod does provide coverage for this in its default fonts, with option for "large" and "massive" for better readability if desired. (see sig if interested)
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Thanks, I'll try it soon!
(first I have to deal with more urgent problem ...)
