[MPlayer-users] bug: subtitles incorrectly displayed w

[Stephen Stocker]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
>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 -su
>bcp
>> > <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

  I still use them, for basic OSD. It makes little sense to me to add
yet more bloat just for the sake of displaying the time and total time
of a video, IMO. (At least I think those fonts are what's used for this
purpose?)

  Steve