High Definition Digital Video Processor
Crestron
DVPHD
VT Pro-e “Page Properties” Dialog Box
– Bit Depth Selection
VT Pro-e “Image Properties” Dialog Box
– Bit Depth Selection
MultiByte International Characters
Most languages use a single byte of eight bits to represent a character, e.g. English,
French, German, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
Multibyte character fonts require more than the usual eight bits to specify a
character. This occurs when a language has more than 256 characters (2
8
) in a font.
For example, Chinese fonts contain several thousand characters. Other multibyte
languages include Japanese and Korean.
There are two separate applications with multibyte characters – static text on buttons
and indirect text on buttons. No touch screen firmware changes are required in either
case.
Indirect text on a button is entered in VT Pro-e and the actual string to be displayed
is entered in SIMPL Windows.
As of this publication date only completely single byte or completely multibyte
strings may be entered or they can not be compiled correctly in SIMPL Windows. In
other words, Chinese characters cannot be interspersed with numbers. Enter Chinese
characters or numbers in separate strings or pad each number with “\x00” to make it
multibyte and then combine it with Chinese characters in the same string.
Of course, the workaround of showing a graphic that displays the string but which is
not dynamic, can always be used. To compile and use multibyte characters it is
essential that the operating system understand the language. Some versions of
Windows are available in many international languages and add-on software is
available for other versions.
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Operations Guide – DOC. 6545C