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Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored?
Posted: 09 Feb 2013 14:08
by Techflaws
This has changed only recently but as with HTML, VLC suddenly only shows one whitespace between characters, even if the item has more.
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T H A T G R E A T S H O W
is displayed as
which is quite unreadable. While this may seem cosmetic, there are some subs where horizontal positioning is necessary, e.g. when several people are talking at once:
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- Are you guys sure?
- Yes. - Nope.
Would be nice if VLC would display these as before (in version 2.01 for example) and as all my standalones.
Re: Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored
Posted: 09 Feb 2013 17:53
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Disable rich text subtitles in prefs.
Re: Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored
Posted: 11 Feb 2013 11:53
by Techflaws
Where do I find this setting? Preferences > all > search > "rich" turns up nothing. Browsing Perferences > Subtitles/OSD turns up Input Codecs > Subtitle Codecs > Subtitles > Formatted subtitles which when unchecked indeed shows consecutive whitespace but - as the name implies - ignores <b>, <i>, etc.
And why was the default setting change in the first place? I haven't changed any of these settings manuall and I always delete all settings when installing a new version of VLC. Thx.
Re: Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored
Posted: 11 Feb 2013 16:02
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Of course, because spaces in HTML are supposed to be condensed.
So either you get b, i, u or you get non-condensed spaces.
Re: Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored
Posted: 12 Feb 2013 17:59
by Techflaws
I guess I've always considered it a not really specifed plain-text format so when extending it with HTML tags why add condensed spaces which are completely pointless in SRT (and sucked in HTML, like forever)? Oh, well.
Re: Consecutive whitespace in SRT subtitles suddenly ignored
Posted: 12 Feb 2013 18:47
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Use HTML entities