Hebrew subtitles don't show up correctly on the latest version (0.18.2) on TV.

[yorai1212]

Describe the bug

Hey.
On my TV, Jellyfin updates automatically, and I've been told that recent updates (0.18) on TV has been changed a lot in regards to subtitles.

My issue is, with the latest version (0.18.2) on my TV (Sony A90K, Google TV OS) is that Hebrew subtitles show up incorrectly.
The period, or any punctuation, for that matter... show up wrong.
So instead of showing up correctly as:
.אוכל

It shows up as:
אוכל.

FYI, on my PC (windows 10), it shows up just fine (double clicking the Jellyfin icon from the task bar, on Chrome. Not via the "Jellyfin Media Player" thingy). But on my TV, it's wrong.

I've downgraded to version 0.17.9 from the f-droid link, the subtitles show up just fine now.

It seems like something in the latest versions was changed and now it's all messed up.

Do be aware though, that the Hebrew letters themselves do show up just fine. It's only the inverted punctuation.

Logs

No response

Application version

0.18.2

Where did you install the app from?

Google Play

Device information

Sony A90K OLED, XR-42A90K

Android version

Android version 10, Google TV OS version I'm not sure how to check...

Jellyfin server version

10.10.3, doesn't matter probably since (I'm guessing) the version of the Jellyfin TV that is messing up with the subtitles, not the server version.

[nielsvanvelzen]

What format are your subtitles in, SRT? Can you share a snippet of those subtitles for testing?

edit: somewhat related issue report on an earlier version (with previous subtitle implementation) #3257

[MichaelRUSF]

See this comment for a sample srt file, plus screenshots of correct and incorrect text direction.

[yorai1212]

Sorry, I wasn't home.
It's an SRT file. But I imagine it would happen with an in-built subtitles track too.
A file for example;
https://pixeldrain.com/u/pX3W865E (not sure how to attach the file, doesn't seem like I can. Hopefully a link is okay).

[nielsvanvelzen]

I was able to confirm the issue but I don't know of a way to fix this yet. The server sends the subtitle stream with correct encoding but once our video player renders it the punctuation ends up the wrong place and I don't really see a way to change that.

[yorai1212]

Well, it was changed in one of the recent updates, surely it's possible to downgrade that one aspect of it? Right?

I'll stay with 0.17.9 for now.

[yorai1212]

Any updates on this? at some point 0.17.9 might break, I'm guessing.
Would be great to have a fix for this.

@nielsvanvelzen

[orenskl]

I was able to have the correct direction of text in Hebrew with this change in the code:

mExoPlayerView.getSubtitleView().setViewType(VIEW_TYPE_WEB) in VideoManager.java

I am not really familiar with the code or with Android development but maybe this can be a clue to the solution

[ebkalderon]

This issue is similar to this separate music lyrics bug in jellyfin-web which I reported previously: jellyfin/jellyfin-web#6391

[orenskl]

It seems that using VIEW_TYPE_WEB has the following side effects:

• The subtitles are shifted right (not centered anymore)
• The player looses focus and I can not bring up the player controls, similar to this bad position some character (... , !) in farsi subtitle google/ExoPlayer#11214

[orenskl]

Adding the unicode LTRM character in the subtitles fixes this, I added a pull request