[Outre]

Kodi doesn't have a proper font fallback mechanism. If the interface is set to certain languages, the unsupported characters will be shown as rectangles:



The current solution is to switch to Arial-based fonts:



However, this will break the design of the skin making it less aesthetic:





It would be better if Kodi could fall back to system fonts automatically.

[scott967]

I think maybe implementing fontconfig library would probably achieve what is needed.  That also should make it possible to use a small font and only load additional characters from other font files as needed.  But it still is necessary to be careful as details in the font can change how characters are rendered and that can change the layout adding difficulty in skinning.

scott s.
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