halilozercan
Subtitles Decoding for languages like Arabic or Greek
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Hi, How can I correctly display subtitles for language like Arabic, Greek or even French.Arabic for instance is being displayed as seen on the attached image.
Subtitles use Html.fromHtml() method to apply subtitle styling if there is any. That method is now deprecated and I'm not sure whether it messes up with UTF-8 encoding which is the default encoding. In the next release, we should add setEncoding and use something more appropriate for styling.
Thanks for the explanation. Yes I was actually thinking about something like that. Subtitles we download from services like OpenSubtitles comes with a value specifying the encoding. So passing that value to BVP will be easy and will solve this issue. Looking forward to seeing this feature in the next release.
