After a couple months of it being broken, I've confirmed the 3rd party applet FontReplacer is now fixed and installable. A hearty thank you for persistent help from Michael Herger, the Lone Wolf of the Squeezebox, in helping me get this working. He even emailed me from holiday in Brazil helping me. He has really been a tireless help to everyone in this still present community, and I commend him for it.
FontReplacer provides a modified DroidSans font that includes a broader character set. I tested it out and it works for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character sets. It does not work with Thai and Arabic. Cyrillic characters are already supported by the default font, so you should already be good there. As for other character sets, you will need to test those on your own. To install on a squeezeplay-based Squeezebox (Touch/Radio/Controller): App Gallery->3rd Party Applets->FontReplacer, choose install (version should currently read 1.3) Applet will download, install and restart To use: You will need to find the Font Replacer item in the home menu, select it and confirm that you want the default font replaced. The squeezebox will restart once more and you will now have a working expanded font set. Background on why it broke: I've been hosting the applet for years on the googlecode website. Early this year I got an email from Google that googlecode was being discontinued (as Google is wont to do with everything they build). To their credit, they offered a one click conversion to my github account, and that worked great. However, github proved to be a non-viable repository for the applet zip file because a) github only provides https for zip downloads, and this is incompatible with the squeezeplay, and b) it produces a zip file organized in a way that is unusable in this context. I am now self-hosting the applet. While that wouldn't be my first choice, it gets me solidly around all of the potential pitfalls of using cloud services as described above. Until Comcast shuts down my webserver, which they'd have no reason to do but I'm convinced they will do someday, because they are Comcast, I think we're good. cheers, #!/ben 180191802018021 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: 2015-05-17 09.36.57.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18021| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Former Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin (r.i.p.) http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ 'KHAAAN!' (http://khaaan.com/)...'BUNNIES!' (http://bettychuenglishangora.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103653 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
