ok i got it after reading thread "HOWTO Solve the disappearing subtitles with 0.8.5" by the admin.
"Go to Preferences, Input/Codecs, Other codecs, Subtitles" and then i chose GBK and then it worked.
I've changed the font within vlc to the arial unicode ms already, that was why i didnt get squares for subtitles. Then ive also changed the font in note pad to arialunicode, but the problem persists, the chinese characters are still displayed incorrectly. How do i check that the character set in sub...
I have the same problem at first as the person who started this thread. Following the methods I managed to display the subtitles instead of squares. But the subtitles, which are in chinese, are wrong, they are displayed incorrectly and are not even words. I opened the .srt file in notepad and found ...