Apple TV 2nd gen does not ship with unicode fonts. You will need to follow these steps in order to view chinese font in XBMC:
- Locate arialuni.ttf (22.1 MB) in C:\Windows\Fonts or google for the file and download it
- SCP arialuni.ttf into /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts
- Windows users: Use WinSCP (GUI)
- MAC / Linux users: scp arialuni.ttf root@<your ATV2 ip address>:/Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts
- SSH into ATV2. Backup and replace Confluence Skin’s font by creating a symbolic link to the above location by following these steps:
- cd /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/addons/skin.confluence/fonts
- mv DejaVuSans.ttf DejaVuSans.ttf.old
- mv DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf.old
- mv DejaVuSans-Bold-Caps.ttf DejaVuSans-Bold-Caps.ttf.old
- mv DefaultCaps.ttf DefaultCaps.ttf.old
- ln -s /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts/arialuni.ttf DejaVuSans.ttf
- ln -s /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts/arialuni.ttf DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
- ln -s /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts/arialuni.ttf DejaVuSans-Bold-Caps.ttf
- ln -s /Applications/XBMC.frappliance/XBMCData/XBMCHome/media/Fonts/arialuni.ttf DefaultCaps.ttf
This is what it should look like after performing the above steps
- Now go to XBMC -> System -> Appearance -> International
- Set Character Set to Chinese Simplified (GBK)
- Go to XBMC -> System -> Video -> Subtitles
- Set Character Set to Chinese Simplified (GBK)
- Reboot XBMC
Done! Now you should be able to view chinese menu, files names and subtitles!