Viewing Chinese filenames in Boxee

[Gareth]

For those who needs to view double-byte / non-English Unicode characters in Boxee, the following trick inherited from XBMC can be used in Boxee.

I'd use a san serif Unicode font with Chinese characters, Apple LiHei Pro, come with Mac OS X. The font is duplicated and renamed:

arial.ttf
boxee-light.ttf
boxee.ttf

The font is then copied and replace the corresponding fonts at the following area:

Boxee - Contents - Resources - media - Fonts
Boxee - Contents - Resources - skin - Boxee Skin NG - Fonts

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2984098408_0c2d57eda2_o.png

You will then be able to see Chinese filenames rather a bunch of empty boxes. :)

Enjoy.



Gareth

[marcel]

cool Gareth ...thanks for the how to ..:)

[cykso]

Hi,

First of all, thanks Gareth posted this tips. However, do you mind telling me where should I copy the files? I cannot locate the Boxee Directory.

Thanks,

[cykso]

Anyone please?

Maybe I just clarify a little bit. I meant I can't locate the Boxee Directory that inside AppleTV, not in mac.
Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks again.

[meteorfalling]

waiting for the solution for appletv as well

[meteorfalling]

waiting on line

[marcel]

under AppleTV it is found under
/Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/media/Fonts
/Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/skin/Boxee Skin NG/Fonts

[mrxxg]

where can i found Apple LiHei Pro in my leopard? thank you very much!

[TokyoJimu]

I couldn't find "LiHei Pro" either so I used "Arial Unicode" and it worked great. Still, I think Boxee should be using Unicode (utf-8/utf8) fonts by default these days.

To save disk space, I used symbolic links and didn't do any copying. Here's a full recount:

cd /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/media/Fonts
mkdir -p orig
mv *ttf orig
ln -s ../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf arial.ttf
ln -s ../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf boxee.ttf
ln -s ../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf boxee-light.ttf
cd ../../skin/Boxee\ Skin\ NG/Fonts/
mkdir -p orig
mv *ttf orig
ln -s ../../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf boxee.ttf
ln -s ../../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf LiberationMono-Regular.ttf
ln -s ../../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
ln -s ../../../../../../../../Library/Fonts/Arial\ Unicode.ttf LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf

[bikram]

Maybe I just clarify a little bit. I meant I can't locate the Boxee Directory that inside AppleTV, not in mac.


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[eccookie]

I'm using the Apple TV, but it seems i can't change the languages as you state above.. help!

[crazysmurf]

Late thanks to the author of this post for this trick.

Also, I found out that it's similiar in Boxee Beta, except you'll be changing "HelveticaWorld-Regular.ttf" and "HelveticaWorld-Bold.ttf" under /Boxee/skin/boxee/Fonts.

[hkriku]

crazymurf,

How did you change the filename while / is mounted as "read-only"?

I have the same need to enable Chinese characters in Boxee beta too.

Many thanks.

[hkriku]

Problem solved.

-bash-2.05b$ mount
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, read-only, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
/dev/disk0s4 on /mnt (local, journaled)
-bash-2.05b$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/disk0s3 /
Password:
-bash-2.05b$ mount
/dev/disk0s3 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
/dev/disk0s4 on /mnt (local, journaled)

[J.B.Cheong]

Boxee for OS X version 0.9.20.10708 (Build Date: Feb 11, 2010)
Leopard and Snow Leopard

This is what I did:


Quit Boxee if running.
Duplicate and make 2 copies of "Arial Unicode.ttf" (it's in /Library/Fonts/)
Rename them to "MuseoSans_500.ttf" and "MuseoSans_700.ttf".
Move both above to /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/skin/boxee/Fonts/ , overwriting the existing copies.
Reboot if necessary.


After that Chinese (Japanese and Korean as well) filenames show up nicely in Boxee.

PS. If you want, you can save disk space using symbolic links instead of duplicating the .ttf files.

[pepperooni]

"/Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/skin/boxee/Fonts/"

How do I get to the above? Thanks.

[zachchu]

I can't see chinese fonts on Boxee Box FW 1.00.xxxx, the above method didn't work any more!!

Anyone can help?
Thanks.

[Entity]

I can't see chinese fonts on Boxee Box FW 1.00.xxxx, the above method didn't work any more!!

Anyone can help?
Thanks.

Avner said on Twitter that there will be Asian fonts for the Box. As for when, I don't know. They are patching and working on more important issues at the moment (video).

You should email him.

[powel212]

The fix for Chinese subs on windows Boxee is here:

http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=177005#post177005

P.