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Bug 684146 - Hebrew subtitles are encoded ISO-8859-8
Hebrew subtitles are encoded ISO-8859-8
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Movie player
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-09-16 12:29 UTC by Shahar Or
Modified: 2012-09-17 12:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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2012-09-16 12:29 UTC, Shahar Or 		Details

Description Shahar Or 2012-09-16 12:29:35 UTC 
Created attachment 224444 [details]
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From downstream Ubuntu
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1051552

Hebrew subtitles, as they are commonly found online, are mostly encoded ISO-8859-8.

Most, if not all video players expect and decode them as UTF-8.

Thank,
Shahar
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-09-17 12:53:55 UTC 
Select the encoding in the first page of the preferences.