using bitsream vera causes incorrect subtitles for many languages

Here occur same thing with Portuguese_Brazilian subtitles ("emoção" shows "emooãç" or "emoãoç") and package here is mplayer-k7. Some characters in caps dont appear, only "?" in your place, like "É". Subtitle time adjust when playing (Z and X keys) dont work too.

Some data for help:

Distro: Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS (with Xfce desktop)

#uname -a
Linux xp2400 2.6.15-25-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:43:20 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

#dpkg -l|grep mplayer
ii mozilla-mplayer 3.17-1ubuntu1 MPlayer-Plugin for Mozilla
ii mplayer 0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
ii mplayer-k7 0.99+1.0pre7try2+cvs20060117-0ubuntu8 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux (dummy p
ii mplayer-skins 2-6 Skins for the Ubuntu mplayer Package

#cat ~/.mplayer/gui.conf
enable_audio_equ = "no"
vo_driver = "xv"
vo_panscan = "0,000000"
vo_doublebuffering = "no"
vo_direct_render = "yes"
vo_dxr3_device = "/dev/em8300-0"
v_framedrop = "1"
v_flip = "0"
v_ni = "no"
v_idx = "-1"
vf_pp = "no"
vf_autoq = "0"
vf_lavc = "no"
ao_driver = "alsa"
ao_volnorm = "no"
softvol = "no"
ao_surround = "no"
ao_extra_stereo = "no"
ao_extra_stereo_coefficient = "1,000000"
dvd_device = "/dev/dvd"
cdrom_device = "/dev/cdrom"
osd_level = "3"
sub_auto_load = "yes"
sub_unicode = "no"
sub_pos = "100"
sub_overlap = "no"
font_factor = "0,750000"
font_name = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf"
font_text_scale = "22,440001"
font_osd_scale = "10,240000"
font_blur = "0,429600"
font_outline = "3,941600"
font_autoscale = "0"
cache = "no"
cache_size = "2048"
playbar = "no"
load_fullscreen = "no"
show_videowin = "yes"
stopxscreensaver = "no"
autosync = "no"
autosync_size = "0"
gui_skin = "default"
gui_save_pos = "yes"
gui_main_pos_x = "666"
gui_main_pos_y = "671"
gui_video_out_pos_x = "411"
gui_video_out_pos_y = "417"

Thanks for read this :)

Is this bug still present in Edgy or Feisty?

Hi there!

> Is this bug still present in Edgy or Feisty?
>
> ** Changed in: mplayer (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

   In edgy.. yes. In feisty, I don't know, I haven't tried feisty at all.

Zsolt

It seems, that subtitles problems with accented characters will be solved simply by changing default font for subtitles - currently mplayer depends on ttf-bitstream-vera font, which doesn't contain a lot of symbols, used in lots of European countries (like Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, etc). We should use ubuntu's default font - ttf-dejavu, which is based on bitstream vera font, but with lots of characters added.

This bug also happens for the romanian language. All diacritics are replace with underscore.

Please apply this in Hardy so DejaVu is used and many non-English languages can have correct subtitles.

This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu8

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mplayer (2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu8) hardy; urgency=low

  * Use DejaVu instead of Bitstream Vera for subtitles so they show
    correct characters for many non-English languages (LP: #48497)

 -- Jani Monoses <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:27:55 +0200

Couldn't it depend on just Bitstream vera OR dejavu, instead of depending on both of those? The same goes for Ubuntu-desktop.