Bug 440217

Summary: title clip: glitch with special characters and typewriter effect
Product: [Applications] kdenlive Reporter: Marcus <kde.bugs>
Component: Effects & TransitionsAssignee: Vincent PINON <vpinon>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: julius.kuenzel
Priority: NOR    
Version: 21.04.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marcus 2021-07-24 09:23:33 UTC
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. create a title clip with special characters like "mdash" ("—") and typewriter effect
2. let kdenlive render


EXPECTED RESULT

all characters (incl. "—") are displayed in typewriter effect


OBSERVED RESULT

when the special characters are to appear, two carets with question marks are displayed first


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

$ uname -a
Linux red 5.10.52-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 20 20:32:02 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 40.3
$ qmake --version
QMake version 3.1
Using Qt version 5.15.2 in /usr/lib


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

text sample to reproduce the glitch: "!"§$%&/()=?öäüß…–—"

You can watch the glitch in this YT video: https://youtu.be/SWxTHxUYyLY

Kdenlive project files: https://tmp.nueb.net/nopurge/kdenlive_typewriter_glitch.zip (~ 1 MB)
Comment 1 Julius Künzel 2021-10-13 11:38:15 UTC
Thanks for detailed your report! This will hopefully be fix soon as you can read in BUG 436113

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 436113 ***