The Sony dash is not a chumby product - you need to post your request on Sony's forum.

The Falconwing (aka Chumby One) could be hacked to support Arabic, at least in the Control Panel.  It doesn't come out of the box supporting it, but the instructions for how to do it are here.

Basically, you'd have to create a font with the correct glyphs, then translate the text.  We have tested translations with non-western glyphs and non-left-to-right, including Korean, Japanese, and Hebrew, and it works.

This would not affect widgets - they'd have to be modified to support Arabic.

Ah - that would be up to the widget developers to add the font and glyphs to the widgets in question.  The Flash Player used by the chumby is perfectly capable of handling Arabic - but the level of support within each widget is up to the widget's author.

stein - are you holding Chumby responsible for independent third party developers choosing to not include the appropriate fonts in their applications?

Chumby has provided all of the technical infrastructure to support international fonts - in fact, you can see several widgets in the catalog, particularly in the Japanese section, that do precisely that.

Ah OK - that would be pretty easy with Western fonts.  The problem with Chinese and Japanese is that the fonts are *huge* - larger than would reasonably fit in the memory of a device like this.

Let me take a look to see what it would take to get My Music Files to handle this a bit better.

The original thread was about fonts used in third-party widgets on the Sony dash.

still donät understand, would that be possible to use USB memory( which I am running my debug... script)? i.e. save the huge font file there and let Chumby access it?

So you mean, Japanese is possible. So how to make this happen then?
I have some titles in japanese still not able to display.

Hi Duane,

I read the instruction in your link@wiki, and made the 3 files and cp to their locations:
-  /mnt/usb/translation.xml
- /mnt/usb/languageFile.xml
- /psp/flashplayer.cfg
All 3 files are in UTF-8 and unix format.

- /mnt/usb/fonts.swf (see pic_1 below, embeded all CJK characters, built a text field with Chinese font named "msyh")

(reboot)

I noticed the fonts of control panel changed, e.g. music source list.(see pic_2 vs. pic_3:original  font without USB)
I have changed the line in language_file.xml for <ts o='DONE' t='ENOD'/>

"ENOD" to "??" (chinese)

But all the DONE buttons are not displaying text. (ENOD was OK)

Also I have changed the line in translation.xml
<translate fontName='msyh'  languageFile='/mnt/usb/language_file.xml'/>

Anything wrong? Please advise.

thanks.
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pic_1: 
pic_2: pic_3:

Still not working, in fact I see the font size has no change (also I change to fontHeightAdjust='75').
Is it correct (single line)? :

/mnt/usb/translation.xml :

<translate fontName='msyh' fontHeightAdjust='150' languageFile='/mnt/usb/language_file.xml'/>

could you share the files so that I could test locally in my CHUMBY?

thanks...

the font file msyh.ttf is 21 Mb
the fonts.swf with the font embed is 4 Mb.
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I use Marcomedia flash 8 to generate the flash of fonts.swf:
- dynamic text
- font selected msyh
- "anti-alias for animation"
- embed: Basic Latin, Japanese(all), Korean(all), simplified Chinese(all)

The fonts.swf(4mb) can be displayed using profile.xml as "mixed local widgets into the channel"

Still don't understand why the file size matters if all in a USB stick, I have put the fonts.swf there too.
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also, I don't know if I should do something like:

CustomFontMap name_of_sans,name_of_serif,name_of_typewriter

in the /psp/flashplayer.cfg?
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I tried your advice to build a new fonts.swf
with the font "Times new Roman" with Latin & herbrew embeded
I edit translation.swf:
<translate fontName='times' fontHeightAdjust='150' languageFile='/mnt/usb/language_file.xml'/>

But cannot see the font for "CANCEL" and "music source" changed. But same as my previous setup.