Re: [slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
Michael Amster wrote: Avi Schwartz wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi - although we support UTF-8 throughout the server, we don't have all the fonts (yet) for them on the player display. -D Any idea when is this coming? I'd hate to tag my Hebrew CDs twice. What type of font is it? Can we use our own font or is the font part of the firmware? Avi Avi: Another interesting issue is that the scrolling will be backwards for Hebrew - maybe there should be a left to right scroller for right to left languages like Hebrew I am aware of the direction issue, and while it will be awkward, it still is better then not have Hebrew letters at all. I am sure the same problem exists with Arabic, Japanese, etc. but what about Cyrillic fonts, can they be displayed currently? It looks to me like the font issue is something the Slim folks need to put more emphasis on, and not just because of Hebrew, of course. It is a big world out there and many are not using a Latin font. Just look at the Arab speaking world and Chinese and Japanese and Russian. Big markets. BTW, as far as the scrolling direction I have a feeling it is a much smaller issue for the developers then the font issue. Of course there will still be the problem of how to decide which direction to scroll on a track by track basis. But then that can be some kind of tag. Avi ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
Avi Schwartz wrote: Dan Sully wrote: * Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi - although we support UTF-8 throughout the server, we don't have all the fonts (yet) for them on the player display. -D Any idea when is this coming? I'd hate to tag my Hebrew CDs twice. What type of font is it? Can we use our own font or is the font part of the firmware? Avi Avi: Another interesting issue is that the scrolling will be backwards for Hebrew - maybe there should be a left to right scroller for right to left languages like Hebrew -MA ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
Christian Pernegger wrote: Any idea when is this [UTF-8 support on the sb] coming? I'd hate to tag my Hebrew CDs twice. I tag my foreign language music by setting each tag twice, e. g.: ARTIST=遊佐未森 ARTIST=Yusa Mimori Alternatively, SlimServer could use Text::Unidecode to transliterate unicode to US-ASCII for regions of the unicode character set that are missing from the squeezebox fonts. - Marc ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
Any idea when is this [UTF-8 support on the sb] coming? I'd hate to tag my Hebrew CDs twice. I tag my foreign language music by setting each tag twice, e. g.: ARTIST=遊佐未森 ARTIST=Yusa Mimori and so on for ALBUM and TITLE. Slimserver will always use the last occurrence of a given tag, so that will be some transcribed version in latin-1, while the original information resides in the first one. Compatible software like foobar2000 will always show both tags or be configurable. This works at least for formats with vorbis tags, i.e. ogg and flac. Should there come a time when all my playback software and hardware supports UTF-8 I can just remove the latin-1 entries via a script. C. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
Dan Sully wrote: * Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi - although we support UTF-8 throughout the server, we don't have all the fonts (yet) for them on the player display. -D Any idea when is this coming? I'd hate to tag my Hebrew CDs twice. What type of font is it? Can we use our own font or is the font part of the firmware? Avi -- Avi Schwartz http://public.xdi.org/=avi.schwartz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Re: Non Roman charaters. How?
* Avi Schwartz shaped the electrons to say... Ripped some tracks from an Israeli CD. Tagged the tracks in Hebrew. The slimserver 6.x web interface correctly shows the Hebrew text. The squeeze box however shows a bunch of question marks instead. I thought that version 6 was supposed to allow the display of UTF-8 characters. Am I wrong? Avi - although we support UTF-8 throughout the server, we don't have all the fonts (yet) for them on the player display. -D -- berkeley db - it's mostly about the hash() ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
