Bug 460514 – media-tv/xbmc-9999: do not replace arial.ttf shipped with XBMC

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sok Ann Yap 2013-03-06 09:58:10 UTC]

The file arial.ttf shipped with XBMC actually consists of DejaVu Sans + Droid Sans Fallback, and is capable of displaying most unicode characters. By replacing it with /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf, non-latin characters now show up as square blocks.

Some relevant links:
- http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6397
- https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/c2adb1ac2f404c6b864baae81f686bcb23ae497f


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2013-03-10 12:05:40 UTC]

Sweet, so let me pick up some font from droid family rather than use bundled one.

[Comment 2 Sok Ann Yap 2013-03-10 16:59:32 UTC]

Any problem with the bundled DejaVu Sans + Droid Sans Fallback? The thing is, XBMC has its own font rendering mechanism that only uses one .ttf file.

[Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2013-03-31 15:09:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Any problem with the bundled DejaVu Sans + Droid Sans Fallback? The thing
> is, XBMC has its own font rendering mechanism that only uses one .ttf file.

Well it is preffered to use system fonts, but in this case I will just revert back to not removing the arial.ttf and explain the reason for it.

[Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2013-03-31 15:13:06 UTC]

Fixed in cvs.