Re: imonlcd German Umlauts XBMC

Hans <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.lcdproc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That´s it,

I didn´t switch the whole role. Means the positions. Thats reason it 
didn´t work. Thx Markus, that was the easy solution I was searching for.

Now it works.

Greetz Hans
Am 27.04.2011 09:43, schrieb Hans:
> Hi Markus,
>
> I already tried to change the server/driver/imonlcd_font.h (before
> recompiling and reinstalling), but it had no effect. Maybe I made a
> mistake. Here a example:
>
> this is the row 252 of this file
>
> { {0x00, 0x3c, 0x82, 0x02, 0x84, 0x3e } }, // 252 \u00fc ü u diaeresis
>
> and this is row 245 of this file
>
> { {0x00, 0x5c, 0xa2, 0x62, 0x9c, 0x00 } }, // 245 \u00f5 õ o tilde
>
> evertime the display should show a "ü" it shows a õ
>
> i tried to switch the rows, i tried to make a change the õ to a ü in row
> 245 an vice versa in row 252.
>
> any ideas what elese can be tried?
>
> @Yura As far as i can tell, the imonlcd_font.h implements the iso
> 8859-15. So the only chance is to make my own font. But do you think
> that would have an effect, when changing the imonlcd_font.h didn´t have.
> I only ask, because I never did this before, and I think that could be a
> lot of work.
>
> Thx for the answers, great to have a community like this
>
>
> Am 26.04.2011 22:56, schrieb Markus Dolze:
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>>> Datum: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:49:52 +0700
>>> Von: Yura Scheglyuk<[email protected]>
>>> An: [email protected]
>>> Betreff: Re: [Lcdproc] imonlcd German Umlauts XBMC
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> On 27.04.2011 0:20, Hans wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried to use the patch given in the ticket, but it didn´t work. I
>>>> think the diffs are to different now. After that I looked in the
>>>> xbmc/linux/XLCDproc.cpp and found that line. But after removing,
>>>> recompining and reinstallation. Nothing changed. Is there another
>>>> line I
>>>> have to remove? Maybe I can edit the function itself. But I couldn´t
>>>> find it. Is there a chance to handle in LCDProc? Maybe with a
>>>> charmap or
>>>> something like that?
>>>
>>> As you have imonlcd you can use patch by Sergey Umpelev that load custom
>>> font:
>>> http://lists.omnipotent.net/pipermail/lcdproc/2010-January/013246.html
>>> This patch needs some ease changes for lcdproc current. This patch
>>> contains ISO 8859-15 font so you have to be sure that patched XBMC send
>>> text to lcdproc in this codepage. Or you can make own font for your
>>> codepage.
>>>
>>> Markus not accepting this patch because promising to implement "font
>>> rendering based on the Freetype library later this year".
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I guess that even font rendering based on Freetype will work in this
>> case as XMBC translate characters to HD44780 encoding - something that
>> I have not found any character encoding for use with Freetype up to now.
>>
>> XMBC should be modified to not translate any characters first.
>>
>> If you absolutely want german umlauts and know the characters XMBC
>> replaces you can 'remap' them again on your own by swapping those
>> character definitions in server/driver/imonlcd_font.h which is well
>> documented and contains german umlauts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Markus
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