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Thanks, could you confirm that VLC is not passing encoding to libass? I spent sometime looking at this file ([url=https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/master/modules/codec/libass.c]modules/codec/libass.c[/url)] and I don't see any encoding being passed to libass here, but I obviously don't ...

Searching some more I found this comment (from 2010) saying you can't change the encoding on SSA/ASS subtitles?

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 91#p249717

I followed this a little deeper by building mkvextract from source and adding some debug statements. $ echo "113,0,Default,,0,0,0,,♪ ♪" > test.txt $ hexdump -n 180 test.txt # Verify this matches "31 31 33 2C 30 2C 44 65 66 61 75 6C 74 2C 2C 30 2C 30 2C 30 2C 2C C3 A2 E2 84 A2 C2 A...

In a mkv file the subtitles lines including music notes (♪) are displaying as (♪) I have tried setting "default encoding" language under settings to "default (windows-1252)" and all utf variations. Using mkvextract --fullraw I see "C3 A2 E2 84 A2 C2 AA" which is being...