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Getting Thai subtitles to work properly - rastarr - 2017-12-08

Hi all,

This is just an FYI as I could never find the definitive solution previously. (and just now set it up for a friend on his new rPi)

Getting Thai subtitles to work:

1. Download arialuni.ttf from http://sourceforge.net/projects/allfonts/files/?source=navbar
2. Copy to /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts (create the directory if it doesn't already exist)
3. Change subtitle font for System to arialuni.ttf in Settings/Video/Subtitles - Text to use for text subtitles
4. Change character set to Thai - Windows

I've personally found more available thai subtitles to be available on Subscene and OpenSubtitles - these are the 2 added to my list of subtitle suppliers

Anyway, I hope this help people out in the future.
Martin

RE: Getting Thai subtitles to work properly - scott967 - 2017-12-08

(2017-12-08, 17:08)rastarr Wrote: Hi all,

This is just an FYI as I could never find the definitive solution previously. (and just now set it up for a friend on his new rPi)

Getting Thai subtitles to work:

1. Download arialuni.ttf from http://sourceforge.net/projects/allfonts/files/?source=navbar
2. Copy to /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts (create the directory if it doesn't already exist)
3. Change subtitle font for System to arialuni.ttf in Settings/Video/Subtitles - Text to use for text subtitles
4. Change character set to Thai - Windows

I've personally found more available thai subtitles to be available on Subscene and OpenSubtitles - these are the 2 added to my list of subtitle suppliers

Anyway, I hope this help people out in the future.
Martin
As far as I know, "ARIALUNI.TFF" is a limited license copyright font distributed by various MS apps and contains the caveat:

"Digitized data copyright © 1993-2000 Agfa Monotype Corporation. All rights reserved. Arial is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation which may be registered in certain jurisdictions."

It probably would be better to build a font using Google/Alphabet Noto Sans which is licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1.

scott s.
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RE: Getting Thai subtitles to work properly - Scotthai - 2024-05-26

Is this possible to do on a fire stick or android tv? If so, please tell me how🙏