Bug 460514

Summary:	media-tv/xbmc-9999: do not replace arial.ttf shipped with XBMC
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sok Ann Yap <sokann>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Xbox project <xbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	scarabeus
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2013-03-31 15:13:06 UTC

Fixed in cvs.