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I am trying to burn subtitles into a video using FFmpeg. The subtitles are for a video in the Tamil language, and the source is an .srt file.
The issue I'm facing is with FFmpeg's font rendering for complex, multi-part characters. In the Tamil script, certain consonant-vowel combinations are represented by a base consonant character followed by a vowel sign. The rendering engine is supposed to combine these into a single glyph. However, FFmpeg is rendering them as two separate, unjoined characters.
For example, the character for ku is being displayed as the consonant (...)