fonts dir: /usr/share/mplayer/fonts/font-arial-24-iso-8859-8 and if bidi enabled /usr/share/mplayer/font need to point at /usr/share/mplayer/fonts/font-arial-24-iso-8859-8 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 32566 [details] font.desc
Created attachment 32567 [details] iso-8859-8-a.raw
Created attachment 32568 [details] iso-8859-8-b.raw
the fonts can be found here too http://codex.homelinux.net/movies/subtitles/mplayer_heb.tar.gz
Created attachment 50616 [details, diff] mplayer-1.0_pre6.ebuild.diff emerges cleanly. Test it. This "arial" naming works technically, reduces amount of diff needed.
Created attachment 51276 [details, diff] mplayer-1.0_pre6.ebuild.diff Removed the symlinking part, as this has side-effects on onscreen display (volume e.g.)
*** Bug 94315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
According to bug 52851 hebrew fonts are missing or mispointed correctly, while according to bug 94315 the "bidi" use flag has no entry in the ebuild, as a result the missing use flag entry causes any(!) RTL language to display backwards. Those two bugs are different.
bidi support is present at least in the pre7 ebuild, I warmly suggest to use the truetype font support that is already present in mplayer since I won't add other useflag and/or add any bitmap font to the ebuild if there is another solution that is easyer. Could we close this bug?
Closing as WONTFIX, truetype fonts should work fine for that task