Chinese language support for Raspbmc

Question

I can't see any files whose names are composed entirely of Chinese characters on my Raspbmc menus. If there is a mixutre of Chinese and ASCII characters, I can see only the ASCII characters in the file name. I've searched but I can't find any information about how to enable Chinese language support.

Answer 1

From http://immigrationroad.com/blog/how-to-watch-chinese-tv-online-using-xbmc/ :

Display XBMC Menus in Chinese

To make XBMC display Chinese characters correctly, you will need to install fonts and change several settings.

• Go to XBMC.org and download the font: DejaVuSans+DriodSansFallback.ttf;
• Change the file name to arial.ttf;
• Go to (your XBMC installation folder)/XBMC/media/Fonts/. For example, it may be C:/Program Files/XBMC/media/Fonts/;
• There should be a file already called arial.ttf. Change the file name to something like arial-original in case you will need it later on;
• Now copy and paste your downloaded arial.ttf to the Fonts folder;
• Go to XBMC – Home – System – Settings – Appearance;
• Under Skin – Fonts, click the up/down arrow to change the setting to “Arial based”;
• Under International – Language, click the up/down arrow to select Chinese (Simple);
• Under International – Character Set, click the up/down arrow to select Chinese Simplified (GBK);
• Your XBMC should now be displaying Chinese characters properly;

This worked for me but I changed the font directory to /usr/share/fonts/truetype.