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Thank you for your insight. I falsely assumed that I must install an Unicode Font or some font with japanese kanjis on my computer. So in put in the "Font" folder of the "Windows" folder the Arial Unicode MS.TTF. No success, in fact it was worse, since Videolan didn't even show t...

Sam again here. Just to add that I also tried to
- switch the default encoding to Universal (UFT-16)
- and to the three different options of japanese offered.

And I tried to uncheck the Subtitle formatting box at the Input-Codec/Codecs subtitles/Subtitles/ preference options.

No success.

I'm playing a .avi file with a .srt japanese subtitle on Windows 7. The japanese text appears like a serie of identical little squares (the preference font is Arial for subtitle as indicated in the tools/preference/Subtitles &OSD box; Default encoding is Windows-1252), If I switch to Universal (...