Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as squares

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Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as squares

Postby tasmi » 08 Dec 2011 23:11

Hi.

I'm having a problem with the Freetype2 font renderer in the lastest versions of VLC. This module can't show correctly the special characters of the Spanish language, like á or ñ. Theses characters appears in the screen as squares.

With the default rendering module all works fine, but I want to use the Freetype2 because of the "Fat outline" option.

Here is a screenshot of the problem in the last version of VLC, 1.1.12

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I've read some post talking about some problems with the subtitles in the 1.0.2 version, so I downloaded the 1.0.1 version and all works fine.

Here is a screenshot of the same video and subtitle files, rendering the text correctly with freetype2

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Also, as you can see, the text in the 1.0.1 version is very much legible.

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Re: Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as square

Postby tasmi » 19 Dec 2011 23:46

Nobody with the same problem?
Is there no solution for this problem?

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Re: Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as square

Postby nkoriyama » 21 Dec 2011 00:54

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Re: Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as square

Postby tasmi » 21 Dec 2011 09:07

Hi.

I will test it today and tell you if the problem is fixed for me.

Thanks!

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Re: Subtitles problem. Special characters rendered as square

Postby tasmi » 21 Dec 2011 23:14

The subtitles are rendered perfect, thanks!


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