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VLC still does not support Complex script South Asian languages ?

I tried that too. I set the font to Unicode compatible fonts, still I get boxes or ????? for Indic language. The first image is from Totem player (the text looks perfectly all right) The second image is from VLC with unicode UTF-8 settings and unicode font. (the text looks like boxes). http://img12....

I am having trouble viewing UTF-8 encoded subtitles (south asian language tamil, and hindi) in VLC 0.9.8 in Mac OS X and in Windows (VLC 0.8.6c). They show up as boxes when played. I put UTF-8 as default encoding in the Preferences ->Subtitle &OSD and also put UTF-8 in Input/output Codecs -> Oth...