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

[dooooo]

Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> On 8 sep 2008, at 05:06, dooooo wrote:
>   
>> Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> Not really .
>> As I mentioned the subtitle is Unicode and all mainstream fonts are
>> Unicode-compatible .
>>     
>
> This does not mean such a font has all the characters supported by  
> Unicode.
>
>   
>> Anyway , I tried the same font I use in Totem-gstreamer and the result
>> didn't change .
>>     
>
> Totem may be using fontconfig to automatically fall back on another  
> font that does have arabic glyphs.
>
>   
>> I investigated the issue ( under Debian at least) before I reported  
>> It .
>> I attached a sample subtitle in the previous e-mail . Try It (in a  
>> Linux
>> environment) and tell me If you had luck ( A screenshot will  
>> definitely
>> convince me) .
>>     
>
>
> DJ
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>   
Thank you for your reply .

I understand now that the problem is not in detecting the right encoding
and that vlc doesn't use fontconfig .

The thing is , I tried my favorite font Nazli (the one used in Totem)
from 'Farsiweb' . I tried fonts from 'Freefarsi' , 'Arabeyes' and 'Kacst' .

So I don't think the problem is Arabic characters  missing  from the
fonts  I choose in vlc .
In fact , I don't know what the problem is .

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