On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:25 +0200, Alexander Riedel wrote:

As fonts all of the different sizes and styles was necessary at the same time and freetype2 library to vdr to fasten. This is only with ttf fonts tested .

By default fonts are as FontOsd arialbd.ttf size 16, FontSml arial.ttf size 12 und FontFix courbd.ttf size 15

Very interesting, but what about enhancing the font bitmap structure to carry antialiased fonts, and using FT_RENDER_MODE_NORMAL ?

cFont::Glyph(unsigned int c) const { [...] error = FT_Render_Glyph( face->glyph, FT_RENDER_MODE_MONO );

I guess this would be fairly trivial to add once FT support is in, by further modifying cBitmap::DrawText(), given some constraints on the OSD palette.

I have to say it's a very good idea. One more step to convince Klaus to UTF-8 :-)

Alexander Riedel wrote:

[...] In setup.conf added some parameters for definition of fonts. For example:

FontFix = courbd.ttf FontFixSize = 16 FontOsd = arialbd.ttf FontOsdSize = 16 FontSml = verdana.ttf FontSmlSize = 12

By default fonts are as FontOsd arialbd.ttf size 16, FontSml arial.ttf size 12 und FontFix courbd.ttf size 15

These files at least for the first start should lay in config directories.

It's probably a good idea to use libfontconfig instead of hardcoding file names here. This way the system wide installed fonts can be used and fontconfig will automatically pick the 'best' font for the job. The fonts you use are not available on most distributions by default...

For each channel in channels.conf it is possible to establish the character coding, the field is added in the end every line. For example:

Das Erste;ARD:198500000:I0C34D12M16B7T8G4Y0:T:27500:101:102=deu:104:0:1:8468:9985:0:ISO8859-15

By default is ISO8859-15.

Don't the stations tell you which encoding they are broadcasting in? Are there any channels with non-iso8859-1 encoding on Astra?

cu Ludwig

Ludwig Nussel wrote:

I have to say it's a very good idea. One more step to convince Klaus to UTF-8 :-)

Yes, it would be so very convenient. Even if I haven't tried this UTF-8 & freetype2 patch myself yet (I will, as soon as I get some little time), I know that users who want to use multiple languages in texts either in the UI or EPG data would benefit from it. Andreas Regel which maintains the graphlcd plugin included my freetype2 patches in the graphlcd plugin and it's underlying library, and I'm sure this UTF-8 support can be achieved there, too. But of course it would be wise to design how this should be handled together with Klaus and maybe even the text2skin, graphtft plugin maintainers/authors, in the hope that a robust and elegant design would be the result. Might be worth starting a new thread if Klaus accepts participating, even if it would only be for the next developer series of VDR, after he finishes 1.4.x-stable...

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It's probably a good idea to use libfontconfig instead of hardcoding file names here. This way the system wide installed fonts can be used and fontconfig will automatically pick the 'best' font for the job. The fonts you use are not available on most distributions by default...

You might be right, I don#t know much about what libfontconfig actually does, and maybe this would also be subject to the discussion I mentioned above.

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For each channel in channels.conf it is possible to establish the character coding, the field is added in the end every line. For example:

Das Erste;ARD:198500000:I0C34D12M16B7T8G4Y0:T:27500:101:102=deu:104:0:1:8468:9985:0:ISO8859-15

By default is ISO8859-15.

Don't the stations tell you which encoding they are broadcasting in?

I don not know if there are any stations which do that, but there are definitively lots who don't, or don't even broadcast EPG, not to mention subtitles or text. For example, I'm supplying my VDR with EPG data from xmltv for romanian stations, which do not broadcast EPG. The data from XMLTV for those stations uses ISO-8859-2, and I can only see it properly if using the romanian VDR interface. Although I updated the romanian translation, I prefer using most programs and devices having a menu in english, but have *contents* displayed *properly*, which is something I believe UTF-8 could solve. BTW, the same issue applies with vdradmind

Are there any channels with non-iso8859-1 encoding on Astra?

As far as I remember, there must be some even on Astra, but 19,2°E is fortunately not the only orbital position one can receive with VDR, isn't it ;-) ?

Best regards, Lucian

Ludwig Nussel wrote:

Lucian Muresan wrote:

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Ludwig Nussel wrote: [...]

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Are there any channels with non-iso8859-1 encoding on Astra?

As far as I remember, there must be some even on Astra, but 19,2°E is fortunately not the only orbital position one can receive with VDR, isn't it ;-) ?

It's a local hardware restriction :-) For testing it would be convenient to have at least one station with different encoding.

Ok, I will check on this after work if noone gives an answer until that, more precicely tonight after the "afterwork shopping" my wife intends today, as you might imagine how german stores will look like this weekend... :-)

Bye, Lucian

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:

On Donnerstag 12 Mai 2005 16:18, Ludwig Nussel wrote:

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Are there any channels with non-iso8859-1 encoding on Astra?

this is greek, iso-8859-7:

ÂïõëÞ;NetMed:12169:hC34:S13.0E:27500:517+8190:700=ell:0:0:384:318:7300:0

^^^^^^ hotbird

cu Ludwig