Ticket #161 (new defect)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 1 year ago

Punctuation in Right-To-Left languages is not displayed correctly

Reported by: odedia@gmail.com Assigned to: astrange
Priority: normal Milestone: Sometime after 1.0
Component: Subtitles Version: 1.0b1
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Subtitle files in right to left languages (Hebrew in my case) are displayed correctly, but the punctuations at the end of each row are showed on the wrong side. This is a "bug" that happens due to the fact the the subtitle engine is probably treating the punctuations as english, but should behave like any other hebrew character.

The same thing happens in the middle of sentences when trying to insert special characters and numbers, for example: it should show "15-yada yada yada" and not "-15 yada yada yada".

VLC and MPlayer display the same subtitles correctly, as does VobSub? under windows for example.

I added some screenshots to explain the issue. The "Wrong" files are from Quicktime with Perian 1.0b, the "Right" files are from VLC. Same movie, same subtitles.

Thank you, and BTW - Great job so far!

Attachments

Wrong1.jpg (64.6 kB) - added by odedia@gmail.com on 04/22/07 17:15:13.
screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.
Wrong2.jpg (46.2 kB) - added by odedia@gmail.com on 04/22/07 17:15:46.
screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.
Archive.zip (255.0 kB) - added by odedia@gmail.com on 04/22/07 17:42:06.
screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.
lost.s03e15.hdtv.xvid-fqm.srt (29.6 kB) - added by odedia on 05/23/07 13:22:11.
A sample SRT file in Hebrew - you'll need a text editor that can display hebrew encoded text to view properly…

Change History

04/22/07 17:15:13 changed by odedia@gmail.com

  • attachment Wrong1.jpg added.

screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.

04/22/07 17:15:46 changed by odedia@gmail.com

  • attachment Wrong2.jpg added.

screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.

04/22/07 17:42:06 changed by odedia@gmail.com

  • attachment Archive.zip added.

screenshots of a movie with Hebrew subtitles.

04/22/07 19:05:51 changed by astrange

Can I have the actual subtitles?

04/23/07 09:31:37 changed by tick

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

Until we get the subtitles, we can't help you with this. Reopen this ticket once you submit the subtitle file

05/23/07 13:22:11 changed by odedia

  • attachment lost.s03e15.hdtv.xvid-fqm.srt added.

A sample SRT file in Hebrew - you'll need a text editor that can display hebrew encoded text to view properly...

05/23/07 13:23:14 changed by odedia

srt file has been attached.

06/05/07 13:59:32 changed by astrange

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

06/05/07 13:59:55 changed by astrange

  • owner set to astrange.
  • status changed from reopened to new.
  • milestone set to Sometime after 1.0.

06/05/07 14:49:14 changed by astrange

The difference between release and nightly Safari that makes RTL work is a 2700-line C++ file :(

07/27/07 19:18:49 changed by astrange

Reported to Apple as bug #5366982.