bobstah Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 so i've been trying to get foreign characters to show on the iPOD song selection screen and finally figured it out. I'm not sure if it's been put up yet but here's the walkthrough 1. go here http://www.phm.lu/downloads/download.aspx?{940B734A-C437-41C7-ADED-2A4418802FD3} and download Handheld PC Pro, 2000 (ARM) . its a registry editor and put it on your SD card 2. for whatever foreign language you're adding, go to your windows\fonts directory and put the font into your SD card. I did mine for Korean language support so I used the gulim.ttc font 3. make sure you have the files in your SD card to start up in testmode and boot the sucker up 4. go access your SD card and copy your font (.ttc) file to the windows directory on your unit 5. now to fiddle with the registry, install the .cab file that should be named regedit.Jup_ARM.CAB if you didn't change it when you saved it to your card (it will give you a warning that the file is not compatible but just install anyway. it worked fine for me) 6. go to start -> programs -> PHM registry editor 7. expand HKEY_Local_Machine, expand software, expand Microsoft 8. go to edit -> new -> key and name it to "FontLink" 9. in the new FontLink folder, make another folder(key) and call it "SystemLink" 10. within the SystemLink folder edit -> new -> multistringvalue and for the name put "Tahoma" and for the value put (in my case) "\windows\gulim.ttc, Gulim" (in essence what this is doing is that if the font to display the characters isn't available in Tahoma to then look through the user defined font file (ie gulim.ttc) for the font. hope that made some sense cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gjas18 Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 I'll have to try this out... I have a lot of japanese stuff on my ipod and it would be really nice to actually be able to tell what music I want to play. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobstah Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 one more thing, every time you start up in testmode, your settings will be reverted back to defaults and the fonts will come up as boxes again, as long as you don't go back to testmode, the settings will stick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 but only for the ipod? or is it gona work on SD and USB as well? I'll give it a shot anyways. thanks good find I'm korean old song lover too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobstah Posted November 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 i'm pretty sure it'll be for anything, not just the ipod as long as its displayed on the unit originally in tahoma. which i'm pretty sure the USB and SD card are both displayed as. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 wow this works on SD USB as well. this method makes F series real bi-lingual machine. big thanks to bobstah. made my dream come true. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted November 9, 2008 Report Share Posted November 9, 2008 this morning all the boxes are back and no korean fonts. bobstash mentioned would be perment as long as you not go into test mode.but looks like ther is other factor because I haven't gone in to test mode yet. your still showing korean bobstash? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobstah Posted November 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 hmm i haven't driven anywhere today yet. i'll check it out tomorrow and let u know... this is gonna suck if the settings don't stick.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnnykim Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 hey, do you think you can send me the gulim.ttc? didnt work for me last night, trying to figure out if its the ttc thats wrong. thanks! johnnykim at johnny-kim dot com Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobstah Posted November 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 ok. the settings are sticking for me. i tried it out today and it still shows the right font Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 that's what I found today too. yesterday I installed mod again and today it's still there. cheers again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mattchench Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 It works for MingLiU (Chinese Characters) for file names and folder names. However, some information such as ID3 Tag like album and song names do not display correctly. Maybe we should modify the default language to corresponding one of the system. I heard wince.nls (/windows) may be replaced by other languages' however, it is hidden in this pioneer system. And no idea any much further. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kylaris Posted November 11, 2008 Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 i followed the instruction and got the "gulim.ttc" off window xp sp2. But I can't get it to show korean fonts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
funkybooty Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 Does anybody know which font file to use for Japanese language support? Thanks! edit: If you have Vista, grab meiryo.ttc, if you have xp grab MS Gothic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
santoki834 Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 that link doesnt seem to be working. anyone know where i can download that file? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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