Author: diaa_abdelmoneim
Description:
Currently timedtext doesn't support unicode characters such as Arabic. When playing captions in a video such as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephants_Dream.ogg cryptic characters are displayed.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephants_Dream.ogg
mdale wrote:
this was "user-error" in the text was contributed to the wiki. I have uploaded the text in the wiki page with utf8 and it appears to work.
diaa_abdelmoneim wrote:
The words display correctly on the timedtext edit page but when choosing arabic from the languages in the video playback it doesn't appear and isn't even marked as chosen.
mdale wrote:
Try shift reload or clearing your cache? It may be loading the old bad-encoded version?
It "works for me" using the current version of the gadget with Firefox on Ubuntu 9.10. Are you still experiencing gibberish ? What platform are you using?
diaa_abdelmoneim wrote:
Sorry, after shift-reloading a second time it works... Thank yo