I made libfribidi0 and arabic working with VLC for subtitles using version 0.20 as joined to this bug report. I consider that using this version solves the RTL unjoined chars bug.
** Attachment added: "This version of libfribidi0 resolves our bug with unjoined letters in RTL languages" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24607607/libfribidi0_0.20-1_i386.deb -- New upstream version 0.19.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191241 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs