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Finally nailed the font issue!

February 24th, 2008 | Category: Coding | Author: elan

The bottom line was that the canonical type on OS X is UTF-32LE, not UTF-16LE as on Windows, or WCHAR_T as on Linux (which is a pseudo-encoding anyhow, which means “the system dependent and locale dependent wide character encoding”). On OS X using WCHAR_T defaulted to UTF-8, which - while it is a great encoding - didn’t jive with the rest of XBMC.

I can’t believe that took around 6 hours to figure out…

13 Comments so far

azrael February 24th, 2008 10:39 am

w00t!!
JuaNuKeR February 24th, 2008 11:44 am

Many thanks!

The Spanish community blesses you!
iMist February 24th, 2008 1:38 pm

Wohoo! Good one!
sigalakos February 24th, 2008 1:52 pm

Perhaps we’ll get a new build just with that implementation. Great work Elan, I can’t wait for the next release to sink my beta jaws in!
elan February 24th, 2008 2:58 pm

Actually, I’m still tracking down some filesystem character issues. For some reason directory/filenames are still screwed up…
Jalle February 24th, 2008 7:58 pm

I hope that this also fixs the problem with Swedish fonts (I assume so). I am so close to get myself a MacMini and that is all due to your work with XBMC… I want to be abl to retire my old Xbox:)
madmax February 24th, 2008 8:44 pm

dos that explain the odd characters used in the RSS feed & weather etc ?
elan February 24th, 2008 8:55 pm

@madmax: Yes!

@Jalle: No reason why it shouldn’t.
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eduo February 26th, 2008 2:24 am

elan: Are there any plans, in the future, to implement Sparkle auto-update functionality? I’d assume “no until we get to ’stable’” but I’ve been asked this around and thought it made sense (I don’t know if there are plans for version-checking in other platforms but the same functionality could call platform-specific functions in each).
elan February 26th, 2008 7:16 am

eduo: Yes, but I’d be happier if Sparkle supported incremental updates, as the full package is quite large.
eduo February 26th, 2008 10:54 am

elan: http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/wiki/Sparkle2/IncrementalUpdates
elan February 26th, 2008 11:04 am

@eduo: Saw that. Looks like vaporware at the moment