Subtitles with special characters

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Subtitles with special characters

Postby Snicks » 31 Oct 2010 16:23

Hi again,

Is there a way to make subtitle with special characters work ? I'm using romanian subtitles, and we have a couple of special characters (like șțâăî) and they show up like weird characters. I know I have to do something about the encoding, but I can't figure it out.

Thanks,
Andi

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Re: Subtitles with special characters

Postby roger jonsson » 01 Nov 2010 08:03

That depends on the encoding of the textfile used. If you don't know the encoding, it is just to go through the encodings in the VLC settings until it gets right. Maybe re-encoding in a texteditor helps too. (I guess)

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Re: Subtitles with special characters

Postby Snicks » 02 Nov 2010 19:42

I tried all sorts of combinations and I can't manage to find the right one.

Maybe someone can help me figure out how this works ?

Take this for example: http://subtitrari.regielive.ro/download ... 110104.srt
On the line 2 where it sais "Ón p„m‚ntul misterios..." it should be "În pământul misterios". I don't need the special character, it could as well be "In pamantul misterios", but those replacing characters are really confusing.

Thank you,
Andi

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Re: Subtitles with special characters

Postby majestico » 20 Nov 2010 18:34

I was having this same problem. Simply changing my language in the prefs from English to Romanian solved it.


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