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I tried the subbed videos that weren't working for you and I'm pretty sure this is part of bad subbing, there were even a lot of bad translations.. While the videos weren't working with VLC they were working with Zoomplayer Bad translations maybe. Bad subbing? Sometimes the subs even don't work if ...

ok here is a sample... However I get no SSA subs with this sample (and many other ones) which is XviD: http://www.matroska.org/samples/matrix/Matrix.Reloaded.Trailer-640x346-XviD-1.0beta2-HE_AAC_subtitled.mkv The last sample is also containing SUBT (arabic and japanese) subs which are working fine,...

Ok thanks.
Merge the aegisub Textfile and attaching Arialuni.ttf into the MKV container works now i see the kanjis.

Nothing works. :cry: Looks like dionoea answer is correct. Tried many different settings in Aegisub file nothing works even if i replace the name of the font with an Empty string the appearance don't change. I set Preferences->Subtitle and OSD->Display Settings->Font to "C:/Windows/Fonts/ARIALU...

Your font is not unicode. I don't know the font VLC uses. The Aegisub file set the font to Arial ... Format: Name, Fontname, Fontsize, PrimaryColour, SecondaryColour, OutlineColour, BackColour, Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeOut, ScaleX, ScaleY, Spacing, Angle, BorderStyle, Outline, Shadow, Alignme...

Even in fully Japanised Vista and VLC it looks like this:

It means you don't the Japoneses characters installed on your OS, if you install them, you'll have beautiful kanjis instead. Don't think so. 1. If I am simply open the Aegisub file in Notepad i see the kanjis. 2. No problem to type kanjis myself (over Microsoft IME keyboard emu.). 3. I use Vista Ul...

Subtitle Unicode support?

First of all - Sub's at 0.9.2 looks much better.
There is just one catch. I have a subtitle file (Unicode utf-8) with an English sub showing additional Japanese chars at karaoke parts.
Instead of these Japanese chars VLC show me only rectangles.