On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:05 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: [...] >> Why do the subtitles contain ZWNBSP in the first place? Surely they're >> not English subtitles? > > No, they're not :) The character comes up in the Cantonese and > Japanese subs for Once Upon A December. > > http://youtu.be/CEpcUeWP0bg > http://youtu.be/WFZAaHrHens > > Possibly some others in the series as well. It may well be a fault in > the subtitles, but most programs I've seen don't show U+FEFF as a big > fat box.
I think that for backwards compatibility, applications (or fonts) are permitted to treat U+FEFF as a zero-width invisible character, so perhaps you can raise a feature request with VLC. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
