When we present a view of subtitles, we ideally want to present the subtitles in their own language and directionality.
Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Angina_video.webm.ar.srt
(Note, that this is not about playing the video, but reading the text.)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T134910 Set correct lang and dir attributes the individual subtitles fragments | |||
| Open | None | T111651 Convert TimedText to make use of ContentHandler | |||
| Resolved | Reedy | T145732 TimedMediaHandler should not call Article::getContent() | |||
| Open | None | T136031 Create a 'parsed' view of subtitle pages | |||
| Resolved | • brion | T136033 Allow server side parsing of the subtitles |
Actually, this is incorrect.. The native format of SRTs is ltr. Just because there is rtl text inside of it, doesn't mean that we should apply that to everything.
Instead, I would say that ideally, the page shows a 'parsed' view, instead of a raw view of the file. In that case we know where we show what.