mattchench Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Fonts file is here and please copy to the SD card This is a .cab installation file for Asian characters. It contains a font file and a Asian wince.nls file and some settings. Font file: It's Google DroidSansFallback.ttf fonts from Google Phone. It supports and is limited to Traditional Chinese, Simplied Chinese, Japanese and Korean. If you want to display language other than these, please refer other's thread here for referance. wince.nls file: Current default wince.nls file in the system doesn't support Asian language setting and also wince.nls is hidden so that it's not that straightforward to overwrite. This .cab file helps you to bring out the hidden file and overwrite it. Installation step 1: double click that file on the SD card and installnation begins. When it prompts want to overwrite a system or hidden file, please click "yes" anyway. (please keep in mind after execute .cab files, it will extract and install and the original .cab will be deleted, please have a backup in your computer) Installation step 2: change your default language setting, please go to regedit (See P.S.)and find out [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls] and change the "defaultLCID" value from 409 to your language. Trad. Chinese is 404, Simp. Chinese is 804 and Japanese is 411 (Sorry I don't know the Korean, please provide if you know one) P.S. The way to edit registry: Go to 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 Installation step 3: remove and SD card and reboot. That's it, just two steps. Again, once you boot with test mode again, all the settings will be gone. You have to start over. But it is not really a big deal though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sombutsi Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 FYI, change number in step 2 to hexidecimal before you change the number Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gyalp Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 It works like a charm. Thanks a lot, dude. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spaceman Spiff Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Thanks for the hack! For some reason, approx every 5-6 boots of the system, the fonts will no longer function and I'll have to reinstall the fonts hack. Anyone experiencing this problem? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
funkybooty Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Yep, same problem here. I think we just need to flood Pioneer with requests that they add foreign charachter support. It should be a relatively simple addition for them, and I'm sure they'd have no problem doing it if enough people requested it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
akshea Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 hi, I just got my f700bt yesterday. I was reading the web for a solution on reading chinese fonts. Instead of adding another font file in the system, is it possible to rename DroidSansFallback.ttf to the default .ttf that the system is using and then just copy to the system and replace the original .ttf file ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DNA02 Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 I new to this, still dnn't know how to do it! I download all the files into the SD card, put it into the HU, but nothing happen! Can't select the SD icon in the menu! A little help please, anyone! Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 do more search. you have to boot into test mode.and follow the instruction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrotor Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17542 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DirtyAzn Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 hi, I just got my f700bt yesterday. I was reading the web for a solution on reading chinese fonts. Instead of adding another font file in the system, is it possible to rename DroidSansFallback.ttf to the default .ttf that the system is using and then just copy to the system and replace the original .ttf file ?? I tried replacing tahoma.ttf in the windows directory with my own font file and it didn't work (MSPINCHO). I also copied a wince.nls file from a Japanese system as well. I guess I am destined to have blocky id3 tags. I tried both the methods in both threads. I thought being a software engineer would help but it didn't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alien2000a Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 The link to the registry editor is dead. Can you please fix it. Thanks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DirtyAzn Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 So when I try to run reloadnls.exe or the one you provided (usemynls.exe) it says they can't be run. I don't know if the issue is that these files can't be called and the old nls in memory is the one that keeps getting run. Bah!! This seems like an issue a lot of people have dealt with in the past but all the stuff they did that works for them isn't working for this device. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
txnsx Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Copy and paste the entire thing will work http://www.phm.lu/downloads/download.aspx?{940B734A-C437-41C7-ADED-2A4418802FD3} I tried the asian font mods many times and it never worked for me. Tried it again a few minutes ago after the firmware 2.0 upgrade. Sigh.. Hopefully, some smart people there can figure it out one day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DirtyAzn Posted February 1, 2009 Report Share Posted February 1, 2009 Sigh.. Hopefully, some smart people there can figure it out one day. I said the same thing earlier. I tried so many things it is ridiculous. I thought maybe this thread or the other thread missed something in windows ce for font overloading but it seems like all the stuff is there and it should theoretically work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
counterfeit1204 Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 i'm pretty sure that korean value is 412. The mod only worked for a day and after the reboot back to the way it was. i guess still no fix for this issue Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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