[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH]breakline properly with subtitles using Chinese

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Nov 25 02:59:31 CET 2005


On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:55:08PM -0500, j at v2v.cc wrote:
> Rich,
> 
> i think you miss the point. right now long lines without space
> are truncated, thus the text is not displayed at all. 
> besides all allowed or not discussion: 
> the text should always be rather displayed than truncated.
> in any language.

Well point 1: you should not be making subtitle files with overly long
lines and no breaks.

But I agree, it would be acceptable to split a line at any point if it
goes over length if there has been no space or other breaking
character. This should not be specific to asian languages.

Rich





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