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ARABIC subtitles ERROR
Posted: 03 Oct 2004 04:18
by mohamedwaly
hello
my vlc version is 0.7.2 and there is error in the display of the arabic subtitle and it display from left to right
is there is solution?
Posted: 03 Oct 2004 14:55
by The DJ
well you didn't describe the problem, so who knows?
Posted: 03 Oct 2004 16:00
by Sigmund
if your vlc is compiled the right way you should get the arabic subtitles displayed the right direction, but they will not be joined and look good. VLC just don't know how to do that
Posted: 04 Oct 2004 08:33
by ipkiss
it was probably compiled the left way then...
Posted: 14 Dec 2005 04:08
by ARTillery
ok..this thread is old..but I still have the same problem..arabic subtitles doesn't display properly..letters looks separated when they should be connected..I'm using vlc 0.8.4.
Is there a fix to this problem yet..or I have to live with it?
there were a post where someone posted a fix for that
viewtopic.php?t=14063
I wonder if this implemented or is available anywhere..
Posted: 14 Dec 2005 10:38
by barakori
The fix mentioned in the post above was approved. Please follow the above post, hopefully, someone will tell us where to get the nightly build. Still, I'm not sure Arabic letters will be joined properly, I'm not sure the FRIBIDI library that's used for right-to-left handling in VLC does this. For whoever's interested, what operating system and font are you using for Arabic, I may give it a try and test it.
Posted: 14 Dec 2005 21:27
by ipkiss
The nightly builds can be found at
http://nightlies.videolan.org/.
Posted: 15 Dec 2005 14:06
by The DJ
And no, fribidi indeed does not support joining, and therefore we cannot properly support arabic subtitles.
Posted: 15 Dec 2005 18:42
by ARTillery
any chance this could be fixed in the future?