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authorOneric <oneric@oneric.de>2024-02-19 22:42:26 +0100
committerStefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com>2024-04-06 09:25:03 +0200
commit0fc975c0d307e9f76ba189778b99a076e16e9acb (patch)
tree97ff73fd2702b10c02bbb8b8e0794217907d3e04
parentbaa64fa4e66465c63f84baaae204734aa19efb3f (diff)
downloadffmpeg-0fc975c0d307e9f76ba189778b99a076e16e9acb.tar.gz
avcodec/ass,webvttdec: implement more portable curly brace escapes
Unlike what the old comment suggested, standard ASS has no character escape mechanism, but a closing curly bracket doesn't even need one. For manual authored sub files using a full-width variant of an appropriate font and with scaling and spacing modifiers is a common workaround. This is not an option here, but we can still make things much less bad. Now the desired opening bracket still shows up in libass, and standard renders will merely display a backslash in its place instead of stripping the following text like before.
-rw-r--r--libavcodec/ass.c12
-rw-r--r--libavcodec/webvttdec.c2
-rw-r--r--tests/ref/fate/sub-webvtt2
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libavcodec/ass.c b/libavcodec/ass.c
index c5abf15122..ef906f9c4b 100644
--- a/libavcodec/ass.c
+++ b/libavcodec/ass.c
@@ -181,10 +181,14 @@ void ff_ass_bprint_text_event(AVBPrint *buf, const char *p, int size,
if (linebreaks && strchr(linebreaks, *p)) {
av_bprintf(buf, "\\N");
- /* standard ASS escaping so random characters don't get mis-interpreted
- * as ASS */
- } else if (!keep_ass_markup && strchr("{}", *p)) {
- av_bprintf(buf, "\\%c", *p);
+ /* cancel curly brackets to avoid bogus override tag blocks
+ * hiding text. Standard ASS has no character escapes,
+ * though (only) libass provides \{ and \}.
+ * Unpaired closing brackets don't need escaping at all though and
+ * to make the situation less bad in standard ASS insert an empty block
+ */
+ } else if (!keep_ass_markup && *p == '{') {
+ av_bprintf(buf, "\\{{}");
/* append word-joiner U+2060 as UTF-8 to break up sequences like \N */
} else if (!keep_ass_markup && *p == '\\') {
diff --git a/libavcodec/webvttdec.c b/libavcodec/webvttdec.c
index 6e55bc5499..35bdbe805d 100644
--- a/libavcodec/webvttdec.c
+++ b/libavcodec/webvttdec.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static const struct {
{"<i>", "{\\i1}"}, {"</i>", "{\\i0}"},
{"<b>", "{\\b1}"}, {"</b>", "{\\b0}"},
{"<u>", "{\\u1}"}, {"</u>", "{\\u0}"},
- {"{", "\\{"}, {"}", "\\}"}, {"\\", "\\\xe2\x81\xa0"}, // escape to avoid ASS markup conflicts
+ {"{", "\\{{}"}, {"\\", "\\\xe2\x81\xa0"}, // escape to avoid ASS markup conflicts
{"&gt;", ">"}, {"&lt;", "<"},
{"&lrm;", "\xe2\x80\x8e"}, {"&rlm;", "\xe2\x80\x8f"},
{"&amp;", "&"}, {"&nbsp;", "\\h"},
diff --git a/tests/ref/fate/sub-webvtt b/tests/ref/fate/sub-webvtt
index ea587b327c..fae50607fb 100644
--- a/tests/ref/fate/sub-webvtt
+++ b/tests/ref/fate/sub-webvtt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0,0,0,,at the AMNH.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0,0,0,,Thank you for walking down here.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.00,0:00:30.00,Default,,0,0,0,,And I want to do a follow-up on the last conversation we did.\Nmultiple lines\Nagain
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.00,0:00:31.50,Default,,0,0,0,,When we e-mailed—
-Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.50,0:00:32.50,Default,,0,0,0,,Didn't we {\b1}talk {\i1}about\N{\i0} enough{\b0} in that conversation? \{I'm not an ASS comment\}
+Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.50,0:00:32.50,Default,,0,0,0,,Didn't we {\b1}talk {\i1}about\N{\i0} enough{\b0} in that conversation? \{{}I'm not an ASS comment}
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:35.50,Default,,0,0,0,,No! No no no no; 'cos 'cos obviously 'cos
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.50,0:00:33.50,Default,,0,0,0,,{\i1}Laughs{\i0}
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.50,0:00:38.00,Default,,0,0,0,,You know I'm so excited my glasses are falling off here.