Chinese characters appearing as squares in XBMC for Apple TV (ATV2)? This is because ATV2 does not come with unicode fonts hence unicode characters like Chinese cannot be shown properly. By following this guide, you will be able to view unicode characters on your XBMC for ATV2.

Pre-requisites

1. Before we proceed, you will need a particular Unicode font – arialuni.ttf (size: 23560KB). You can easily locate this file on your Windows (C:\Windows\Fonts) or search online for alternative (hint: Google). If it appears as ARIALUNI.TTF, simply rename it to arialuni.ttf.
2. You will need to hook up the Apple TV2 (ATV2) to your network and know your ATV2′s IP address.

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