2008-10-01, 17:32
Hi there,
Support for UTF8 in Linux is far superior than microsoft products. However XBMC for linux inherent some legacy charset support from xbmc for xbox.
Here I will brief describe how to make a drop menu available so choosing UTF8 as a "language" (in region settings) can be made by the end user.
Go to the XBMC root folder which contains the xbmc.bin binary. Then
Replace string
by
In the above example English was used as a template.
A better idea would be include UTF-8 as a charset option.
Support for UTF8 in Linux is far superior than microsoft products. However XBMC for linux inherent some legacy charset support from xbmc for xbox.
Here I will brief describe how to make a drop menu available so choosing UTF8 as a "language" (in region settings) can be made by the end user.
Go to the XBMC root folder which contains the xbmc.bin binary. Then
Code:
cd language
sudo cp -a English UTF8
cd UTF8
sudo vim langinfo.xml
Replace string
Code:
CP1252
Code:
UTF-8
In the above example English was used as a template.
A better idea would be include UTF-8 as a charset option.