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

[Savchenko Andrew]

Hi!

> > > > > > > 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...

Afaik, Monotype license forbids TTF distribution in Linux distributives, but 
allows downloading and usage for own purposes. So, if you'll remove support 
for bitmap fonts users wouldn't be available to see movies with subtitles 
"from the box", they would download and install truetype fonts manually. Thus 
I think it is bad idea to remove support for bitmap fonts.