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Just for info,

0.84 seems dealing worse with subtitles than the previous version.
I'm talking about when you got avi + srt ...

2 differents macs, 2 different versions of VLC, same video and subtitles files... on 0.84 get rides of some subtitles... on the previous one, everything's ok...

I've got the same problems !

If I watch an AVI+srt, in the new 0.84 version, most of the subtitles are missing

Same problem here!!
Any solution yet???
I think i'm going back to the old version.....

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

'hope this is a temporary solution...

VLC just skips every line with special accents.
ISO-8859-1 does not mean "Windows" for everyone.
Unfortunatly, almost every srt files are for a Windows charset. Quite annoying to select the proper charset every time for a Mac user.

Thank you very much for your software, by the way !

You can set the default encoding in the preferences.

Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitles / Subtitles text encoding

You can set the default encoding in the preferences.

Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitles / Subtitles text encoding

Thanks a lot.

i also am using vers. .8.4 and i have many troubles trying to get a japanese subrip file to work. what is the correct subtitles encoding to use? i've tried many so far, some produce a jumbled mess, no luck

i also am using vers. .8.4 and i have many troubles trying to get a japanese subrip file to work. what is the correct subtitles encoding to use? i've tried many so far, some produce a jumbled mess, no luck

Most likely it's Shift_JIS, which is the default encoding on both Windows and Mac for Japanese.

thanks, i try shift_jis but i only get rows of blocks. EUC-jp, jp-1 and jp-2 give me nothing, except for the authors name that does appear at the beginning of the movie in roman script. i've tried a few movies and several different japanese .srt files with the same result. any other ideas would be great! tx

Same problem here!!, with spanish sub, in my MAC.
Wich is the proper charset for Spanish subtitles??
Help please!!

for my it works fine with ISO-8859-1, then go to Preferencias / Input/Codecs / Other codecs / Subtitulos / Codificacion de texto de subtitulos = ISO-8859-1

thanks, i try shift_jis but i only get rows of blocks. EUC-jp, jp-1 and jp-2 give me nothing, except for the authors name that does appear at the beginning of the movie in roman script. i've tried a few movies and several different japanese .srt files with the same result. any other ideas would be great! tx

You also need to tell VLC to use a font that supports Japanese. (Unfortunatly there is not a single font on the mac that supports ALL unicode characters. Very Uni that unicode isn't it??)

VLC treats the subs as UTF-8 now unless you tell it otherwise. Please select the proper charset in the subtitles dialog when you open a file.

'hope this is a temporary solution...

VLC just skips every line with special accents.
ISO-8859-1 does not mean "Windows" for everyone.
Unfortunatly, almost every srt files are for a Windows charset. Quite annoying to select the proper charset every time for a Mac user.

Thank you very much for your software, by the way !

charsets have nothing to do with windows vs. mac
it tells the system what kind of characters to use to display information in a textfile. Unfortunatly most subtitle systems do not include the charset information by themselves (idiotic of course), so you need to tell VLC which charset it is encoded in.