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lorraineS
Community Member
28 days ago

Arabic Closed Captions do not Display properly (Storyline 360)

We've been doing a lot of localization.  Lately we've been doing English to Arabic.  On screen text looks okay. We're using AI generated speech with auto generation of closed captions. The clos...
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ThierryEMMANUEL
Community Member
23 days ago

Hello lorraineS​ 

I encountered the same problem (and many others) with the Arabic language a few months ago. I posted a feedback post about it on my LinkedIn profile (in French, but you’ll no doubt be able to translate it). An Egyptian member of the community helped me sort out this (your) subtitle issue with four lines of JavaScript code. “This issue is actually built into Articulate — it doesn't properly support RTL (right to left) in captions (subtitles). I tried to fix it using JavaScript, and luckily, it worked!” he said. I’ll explain step by step how to do it in the fourth point, but it’s not complicated at all. You can copy and paste the lines of JavaScript code too. I’m pretty sure this will help you.  

LinkedIn post about arabic close caption issue and other problems in SL

 

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lorraineS
Community Member
1 day ago

Thank you for the linkedin article. I'm going to work on it now. But reading your article raised a question for me. 

If I change the player to read right to left when Arabic displays, how do I get it to automatically switch back to ltr for other languages in a multilanguage file?