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Bug 549636 - Right to Left Subtitles
Right to Left Subtitles
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 413263
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-27 21:02 UTC by Mohammad Alhobayyeb
Modified: 2008-08-29 13:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22

Attachments
Subtitle for Dexter season 1 episode 1. (39.38 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-08-27 23:30 UTC, Mohammad Alhobayyeb 		Details
What it looks like on my system (138.34 KB, image/png)
2008-08-28 09:25 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		Details
At 8:32 (64.32 KB, image/png)
2008-08-29 00:04 UTC, Bastien Nocera 		Details
See it in English (31.58 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-08-29 12:47 UTC, Mohammad Alhobayyeb 		Details
The Arabic Comparison (10.85 KB, image/png)
2008-08-29 12:50 UTC, Mohammad Alhobayyeb 		Details

Description Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-27 21:02:08 UTC 
I saw in Totem that subtitles are only left to right, but in Arabic and other languages we write right to left.

So, it is a feature request not a bug but I do not find and section for that or any email.

So, pls add this feature

Thank you
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-27 21:36:35 UTC 
Which encoding did you select in the preferences? Do you have an example file to reproduce the problem?
Comment 2 Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-27 23:30:39 UTC 
Created attachment 117491 [details]
Subtitle for Dexter season 1 episode 1.

The encoding is Arabic(Windows-12565)

I have downloaded a Movie with its subtitle but the text goes Left to Right while Arabic is right to left.

I will uploaded the subtitle file.
Comment 3 Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-27 23:31:45 UTC 
The encoding is Arabic(Windows-12565)

I have downloaded a Movie with its subtitle but the text goes Left to Right while Arabic is right to left.

I will uploaded the subtitle file.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-28 09:25:43 UTC 
Created attachment 117509 [details]
What it looks like on my system

Is this how it's supposed to look like, or is it the wrong direction?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-28 09:27:54 UTC 
Also, which backend are you using, xine-lib, or GStreamer?
Comment 6 Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-28 23:58:11 UTC 
I this image it is good but go forward to 8:31 and take another shot

I cannot take a screenshot for the movie it get black screen only.
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-29 00:04:03 UTC 
Created attachment 117558 [details]
At 8:32

Looks fine to me...
Comment 8 Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-29 12:47:26 UTC 
Created attachment 117583 [details]
See it in English

I tried to do the same mistake with English.
See the Arabic comparison attached after this one.
Comment 9 Mohammad Alhobayyeb 2008-08-29 12:50:09 UTC 
Created attachment 117584 [details]
The Arabic Comparison 

Here is the comparison in Arabic.
Between how R-T-L and L-T-R display in Arabic.

I hope everything is clear now.

Thanks
Comment 10 Bastien Nocera 2008-08-29 13:04:36 UTC 
This is a bug in Pango, see bug 413263.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 413263 ***