[Bug 39198] Non UTF-8 subtitles are badly displayed

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Public bug reported:

Affects: gstreamer (upstream)
       Severity: Unknown
       Priority: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
Affects: gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
     Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
In French and many more languages, chars like é à ç ... are displayed as ??? if the srt file is not in UTF-8.
It's very annoying because most of the srt files you download from the web are in ISO-8859-15.

This bug was recently fixed in upstream (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172848).
I don't know when is planned gst-plugins-base 0.10.6 and if it will be shipped with Dapper but if it don't, i think it would be a good idea to backport this fix.

Currently, french subtitles are just unusable with Dapper.

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #172848
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org//show_bug.cgi?id=172848

** Also affects: gstreamer (upstream) via
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org//show_bug.cgi?id=172848
     Severity: Unknown
     Priority: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: gst-plugins-base0.10 (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
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Non UTF-8 subtitles are badly displayed
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39198