"Project - Subtitles - Import Subtitle File..." ruins non-ascii characters when importing SRT file in UTF-8 encoding.

[Jean-Baptiste Mardelle]

On Sonntag, 5. März 2023 05:16:55 CET Stub wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Creating new subtitles within kdenlive works just fine and it automatiicall
> obeys the UTF-8 encoding for non-ascii characters.
> 
> When I save and close kdenlive, the automatcially saved srt file also
> correctly shows the non-ascii UTF-8 characters when inspected with a simple
> text editor.
> 
> HOWEVER, things go wrong with the 
> 
>    Project -> Subtitles -> Import Subtitle File...
> 
> When I import a subtitle srt file with non-ascii characters (encoded in
> UTF-8), all non-ascii characters get scrambled to unreadable character
> sequences. 
> On the other hand, if I later open the saved kdenlive file, then the
> automatically saved subtitles file is loaded correctly (NO scrambling of
> non-ascii characters).
> 
> So my guess is, that something is wrong with the "Import Subtitle File..."
> procedure. Is that so?


Hi,

Thanks for your report. I could reproduce the problem using very short 
subtitle files, where it incorrectly thinks an UTF-8 file is encoded as 
japanese. I will update the import dialog to show the detected encoding, 
better handle poor detection confidence and allow user to enforce an encoding.

Regards
Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

> Thank you!
> -S.R.

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