Bug 431926

Summary:	German Special Characters like ä makes problems in Subtitle
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	Holger <h.kopf>
Component:	User Interface & Miscellaneous	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex0082, fritzibaby
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	20.12.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	20.12.2
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Description Holger 2021-01-22 10:09:25 UTC

SUMMARY

If is use German Special Characters like ä in subtitles it works till i save the project and open it again.

After re-open the file, the characters in subtitle are changed:

Länder -> LÃ¤nder

Could you check this ?

Best regards Holger


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Alex 2021-01-25 13:47:44 UTC

The problem already exist in version 20.12.0 (on windows)
It seems to be an enconding problem of the <project_name>.srt file.

Workaround : Change the encoding of characters (ie : with notepad++) of the ".srt" file : from UTF-8 to UTF-8-BOM (or vice versa) before opening kdenlive.

Comment 2 Holger 2021-01-25 14:02:20 UTC

Hi Alex, your workaround works perfect for me. I just changed it to UTF-8-BOM and it works.
Thanks !

Comment 3 emohr 2021-01-28 18:31:19 UTC

Thanks for reporting and the workaround. This should be fixed with upcoming version 20.12.2. Please test ones available.