diff --git a/src/gui/widget/textbox.cpp b/src/gui/widget/textbox.cpp
index 8972e07c6..72b5de763 100644
--- a/src/gui/widget/textbox.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/widget/textbox.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ CTextBox::CTextBox(const char * text, Font* font_text, const int pmode,
 	//TRACE(" CTextBox::m_cText: %d, m_nMode %d\t\r\n",m_cText.size(),m_nMode);
 
 	m_textBackgroundColor 	= textBackgroundColor;
-	m_nFontTextHeight  	= m_pcFontText->getHeight();
+	m_nFontTextHeight 	= setFontTextHeight();
 
 	//TRACE("[CTextBox] %s Line %d\r\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
 	//TRACE(" CTextBox::m_nFontTextHeight: %d\t\r\n",m_nFontTextHeight);
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ void CTextBox::initVar(void)
 	m_cText	= "";
 	m_nMode = SCROLL;
 
+	m_FontUseDigitHeight	= false;
 	m_pcFontText  		= g_Font[SNeutrinoSettings::FONT_TYPE_EPG_INFO1];
-	m_nFontTextHeight 	= m_pcFontText->getHeight();
+	m_nFontTextHeight 	= setFontTextHeight();
 	m_nMaxTextWidth		= 0;
 
 	m_nNrOfPages 		= 1;
@@ -190,11 +191,28 @@ void CTextBox::initFramesAndTextArray()
 	refreshTextLineArray();
 }
 
+int CTextBox::setFontTextHeight()
+{
+		if (m_FontUseDigitHeight)
+			return m_pcFontText->getDigitHeight() + (m_pcFontText->getDigitOffset() * 18) / 10;
+		else
+			return m_pcFontText->getHeight();
+}
+
+void CTextBox::setFontUseDigitHeight(bool set/*=true*/)
+{
+	if (m_FontUseDigitHeight != set) {
+		m_FontUseDigitHeight = set;
+		m_nFontTextHeight = setFontTextHeight();
+		initFramesAndTextArray();
+	}
+}
+
 void CTextBox::setTextFont(Font* font_text)
 {
 	if ((m_pcFontText != font_text) && (font_text != NULL)) {
 		m_pcFontText = font_text;
-		m_nFontTextHeight = m_pcFontText->getHeight();
+		m_nFontTextHeight = setFontTextHeight();
 		//Initialise the window frames first and than refresh text line array
 		initFramesAndTextArray();
 	}
diff --git a/src/gui/widget/textbox.h b/src/gui/widget/textbox.h
index b3a34971e..2b9377432 100644
--- a/src/gui/widget/textbox.h
+++ b/src/gui/widget/textbox.h
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ class CTextBox
 		void refreshText(void);
 		void reSizeMainFrameWidth(int maxTextWidth);
 		void reSizeMainFrameHeight(int maxTextHeight);
+		int  setFontTextHeight();
 
 		/* Variables */
 		std::string m_cText;
@@ -150,6 +151,7 @@ class CTextBox
 /*		int max_width;*/
 		
 		int text_border_width;
+		bool m_FontUseDigitHeight;
 		
 	public:
 		/* Constructor */
@@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ class CTextBox
 		void	setWindowPos(const CBox* position){m_cFrame = *position;};
 		void 	setWindowMaxDimensions(const int width, const int height);
 		void 	setWindowMinDimensions(const int width, const int height);
+		void    setFontUseDigitHeight(bool set=true);
 
 		inline	bool 	isPainted(void)			{if( frameBuffer == NULL) return (false); else return (true);};
 		inline	CBox	getWindowsPos(void)		{return(m_cFrame);};