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In Denmark we have three letters Å, Æ and Ø. But when a word with one of these three letters is said in a movie, VLC makes a ? instead of one the letters.
How can i fix that?

I have tried changing the encoding to nordic, but it didn't help

Make sure that a font is selected supporting your characters and that you're using the latest public version of VLC, which is the 1.1.12 release at this point. You can switch fonts in the "Subtitles & OSD" section of VLC's preferences.

I have the latest version, and the front is set to a front which supports danish. So what do I do now?

If you use srt subtitle file, can you explicitly convert the srt file's charcter encoding to UTF-8?
I can see ÆæØøÅå in the srt subtitle file on VLC windows/mac.

Here is a sample: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7574919/vlc/SampleMovie.zip

It looks good. But how do I convert the srt file's charcter encoding to UTF-8?

You basically got 2 options:
- open the subtitles using VLC's "advanced open file" dialog, which allows to choose the subtitle encoding in the respective panel
- use a proper text editor to convert the file manually

I have now via VLC's advanced open file dialog converted it to UTF-8, but it's still the same

After converted it to UTF-16 it worked. Thanks for all your help