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VLC titles/subtitles use the system default sans-serif without fallback #5
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The solution is to specifically select any other font for subtitles in VLC.
Result: Other non-viable (I think) solutions:
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VLC assumes (reasonably) the default sans-serif system font has a full
character set. The result on Linux, when Emoji One Color is the default
font, is that all titles/subtitles appear as missing/error characters.
The solution is to specifically select any other font for subtitles in VLC.
Click Tools menu
Click Preferences option
Click Subtitles / OSD button/tab
Subtitle effects section, select a font
Save.
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The DejaVu font family is based on the Bitstream Vera font family to provide greater unicode coverage. The only way to override the emoji it includes is to make the emoji font the primary system font. This shouldn't be a problem, but a number of programs do not correctly use font fallback resulting in font rendering errors everywhere: #1, #5, #16, #18, #19. This font.conf makes Bitstream Vera the default font for Serif, Sans-Serif, and Monospace font requests since it does not contain any Unicode Emoji characters. Emoji One Color font is the first fallback, followed by DejaVu to provide everything else. Test with: fc-match -s serif fc-match -s sans-serif fc-match -s monospace May be the solution for #17
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I've confirmed 24b6539 fixes this |
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VLC assumes (reasonably) the default sans-serif system font has a full character set. The result on Linux, when
Emoji One Coloris the default font, is that all titles/subtitles appear as missing/error characters.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: