2005-01-21, 21:00
hello everyone!
first of all... mad respect to the developers of xbmc and everyone else who put so much time and effort into making it what it is today.. simply amazing!
now for my question..
i have modded over 100 xboxes and have played around with xbmc in a lot of occasions. most of the time if i had a problem i could solve it directly, got help on irc, or it was fixed in a newer release.
but now i am stuck on a tricky lil thing.. i am trying to show arabic subtitles for some very good friends of mine and they tell me the subtitles are not appearing correctly.
i have downloaded the latest build i could find on the server (the one of 15-01-2005), uploaded a ttf font which contains the arabic alphabet, and changed the settings accordingly (charset and bi-dir-flipping). it is showing the correct font, the letters are appearing in arabic, and the subtitles are showing from right to left.
however.. the words are single letters, as opposed to true arabic words.. like you would see in windows. so the letters are not joined into a word, but are seperate letters, with spaces inbetween the words. this happens with every subtitle file and every movie i try them on.
is there anyone that has experience with getting arabic subtitles to work in xbmc? or can anyone help me fix them?
i can ask anyone here with me to help, as i can not read arabic myself, but they (my friends and their family here in qatar) sometimes have a hard time reading/understanding english, and there are a lot arabic subtitles for download which is super, but unfortunatly not for xbmc at the moment.
please help me and others by making this software even better, so the arabic speaking parts of the world can enjoy this great piece of soft as much as all of us are.
thanks a lot,
ralph
first of all... mad respect to the developers of xbmc and everyone else who put so much time and effort into making it what it is today.. simply amazing!
now for my question..
i have modded over 100 xboxes and have played around with xbmc in a lot of occasions. most of the time if i had a problem i could solve it directly, got help on irc, or it was fixed in a newer release.
but now i am stuck on a tricky lil thing.. i am trying to show arabic subtitles for some very good friends of mine and they tell me the subtitles are not appearing correctly.
i have downloaded the latest build i could find on the server (the one of 15-01-2005), uploaded a ttf font which contains the arabic alphabet, and changed the settings accordingly (charset and bi-dir-flipping). it is showing the correct font, the letters are appearing in arabic, and the subtitles are showing from right to left.
however.. the words are single letters, as opposed to true arabic words.. like you would see in windows. so the letters are not joined into a word, but are seperate letters, with spaces inbetween the words. this happens with every subtitle file and every movie i try them on.
is there anyone that has experience with getting arabic subtitles to work in xbmc? or can anyone help me fix them?
i can ask anyone here with me to help, as i can not read arabic myself, but they (my friends and their family here in qatar) sometimes have a hard time reading/understanding english, and there are a lot arabic subtitles for download which is super, but unfortunatly not for xbmc at the moment.
please help me and others by making this software even better, so the arabic speaking parts of the world can enjoy this great piece of soft as much as all of us are.
thanks a lot,
ralph