#593 Arabic characters appear disconnected in subtitles

[Muhammad Fawwaz Orabi]

Most characters of the same word in Arabic script are connected. The latest version of SMPlayer shows Arabic subtitles with each character separated making substitles unreadable, whether using SSA/ASS library or the normal subtitles.

[Ricardo Villalba]

It would be very useful if you can send a sample srt and a screenshot of how the text should look.

[Muhammad Fawwaz Orabi]

Here's how Arabic subtitles look on SMPlayer

[Muhammad Fawwaz Orabi]

Here's how they should look. Screenshot of Totem on Fedora 19.

[Muhammad Fawwaz Orabi]

A sample srt file (UTF8-encoded). The matching video (without subtitles) can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT2FFH5BovM

[Ricardo Villalba]

I think in my computer the subtitles are displayed correctly, although I had to disable the SSA/ASS subtitles (with it the text is reversed).

This is in ubuntu 12.04, using smplayer 0.8.6 (svn r5929) and mplayer r34540.

I tested also in Windows with the same result.

[Muhammad Fawwaz Orabi]

Yes they are display correctly on your machine.
I tried the normal subtitles but nothing changes, they are still disconnected.
SMPlayer 0.8.6 (from fedora 19 repos) using MPlayer SVN r36171