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0000381Cinelerra-GG[All Projects] Bugpublic2020-02-15 17:35
Reporterjoinlaw Assigned To 
PriorityurgentSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformGnuOSarchOS Versionrolling
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0000381: RTL and Unicode support is missing in cin-gg
Descriptionhi,

when running cin-gg with system language that are rtl or unicode or from the languages that
connect words such as arabic it doesn't render properly the words are unconnected and the text is left
aligned and sometimes cannot enter unicode language in both user interface and title effect/filter.
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PhyllisSmith

PhyllisSmith

2020-02-15 17:35

manager   ~0002809

It looks like Qt (the open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces and cross-platform applications) is able to handle Right-To-Left language translations, but unfortunately Cinelerra does not use Qt.

Cinelerra does handle UTF-8 in many places, for example, you can enter file names that have what I call "double byte characters" such as the French accent grave or the German umlaut. In addition the Title plugin allows for any Unicode character, although not automatic. You can read about the current capability in Section 17.5 of the Manual on the cinelerra-gg.org website. But here it is:

17.5 Textbox Non-std Character / Unicode Insertion
If you want to enter a special character – like a bullet, an accent grave character, or a mathematical summation symbol – you can use the unicode equivalent in a textbox to do so. In the textbox, keyin Ctrl-Shift-U which puts you into single character unicode mode, then keyin the numerical value for the intended single character followed by the carriage return. For a voluminous list of possible special characters, you can go to https://unicode-table.com/en/ on the internet to choose by highlighting a character to get its numerical equivalence. For example, U + 2022 is a bullet. If you make a mistake, you can use the backspace key or if you want to exit unicode-insert-mode, use the ESC key. This feature is especially useful with the Title plugin and for naming Tracks in the main window.

However, it is worth mentioning that some special characters are available via the compose key in the current distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key .

I do not have any feedback on the connected Arabic words.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-02-15 11:45 joinlaw New Issue
2020-02-15 17:35 PhyllisSmith Note Added: 0002809