@@ -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 == '\\') {
@@ -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
{">", ">"}, {"<", "<"},
{"‎", "\xe2\x80\x8e"}, {"‏", "\xe2\x80\x8f"},
{"&", "&"}, {" ", "\\h"},
@@ -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.