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XBMC Chinese Support For Apple TV 2

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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:

  1. Locate arialuni.ttf (22.1 MB) in C:\Windows\Fonts or google for the file and download it
  2. 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
  3. 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

  4. Now go to XBMC -> System -> Appearance -> International
  5. Set Character Set to Chinese Simplified (GBK)
  6. Go to XBMC -> System -> Video -> Subtitles
  7. Set Character Set to Chinese Simplified (GBK)
  8. Reboot XBMC

Done!  Now you should be able to view chinese menu, files names and subtitles!


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