[vlc-devel] [vlc] Arabic unicode subtitles improperly displayed

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le dimanche 7 septembre 2008 04:38:17 dooooo, vous avez écrit :
> I can't display Arabic Unicode subtitles properly . In fact this problem
> is present in mplayer and Xine . The only multimedia framework not
> suffering from this problem is Gstreamer (I tested with 2 players using
> Gstreamer as a backend successfully ) .
>
> Vlc screenshot :
> http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlcwithimproperdisplayosm3.png
>
> Totem-gstreamer screenshot :
> http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=totemgstreamerwithpropetj5.png
>
> I'm attaching a sample subtitle file with this mail to work with it If
> needed .

That's a problem with the selected fonts. Go to the preference, and select a 
font that include Arabic characters.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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