[MPlayer-users] bug: subtitles incorrectly displayed with movie coded with matroska codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:42:48PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:12:10AM +0400, Savchenko Andrew wrote:
> > > > > > oh i see. yes, very true. btw what happens with runtime subtitle
> > > > > > switching now, when some subs are internal and others external?
> > > > >
> > > > > Then things do down the drain unless the external ones are in UTF-8...
> > > >
> > > > then i think we have a major design issue here... :)
> > >
> > > What about processing all txt subs in utf8 internally and converting them
> > > upon loading from whatever encoding they are in (or the user specified)?
> > 
> > I think this converting is already implemented and can be done by using -subcp 
> > <subtitle_encoding> option.
> 
> Correct. And it also is default when enca is used AFAIK. Unfortunately
> some (all?) of the OSD fonts of the homepage do not support unicode -
> hopefully this will be fixed soon.

uhg, are people still using those horrible bitmap fonts? imo we should
remove support for them and always use  type/truetype fonts...

rich