Random characters instead of subtitles

[camy]

I know there are tons of threads about this so I have tried several ways to make them work but I have had no luck.

Just downloaded latest version of VLC and got the subtitles to work fine on one movie. Now trying another and I have added the .sub file to movie using the open (advanced) option in VLC. All im getting is lots of letters with accents. (î ãîäèíè,|â åäíà äàëå÷íà ãàëàêòèêà...)

I have tried the following:

Change font of subtitle
Changed subtitle coding from windows 1252 to both UTF-8 and UTF-16 (this changes characters to squares btw)
Saved .sub file as UTF-8

I find it weird that when i open the .sub file in notepad that the characters are set as the accent nonsense. Which seems to me like it has been working all along but the .sub file content is this random lettering. If the .sub is basically programmed to display those lines of letters at the desired timing then why isnt it just in plain english?

I am defintely missing something here!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The tons of threads will tell you the same thing:
If you see gibberish or questions marks, the selected character encoding is wrong.
If you see square boxes, the selected font does not support the text script.

Either way, to answer your question: the subtitle file is not using the Latin Roman alphabet.

[camy]

I sort of cheated and downloaded an .srt file from somewhere else. But this isnt a very convenient way of doing this!

Plus now I have subtitles through all the english parts! So now the only solution is manually delete all the english subtitles using notepad just so I can read 4 scenes of subtitles!

I might aswell learn the alien language from star wars and that would be easier!

Tried selecting various character encoding options and still not working.
Surely the issue is the .sub file not using the latin roman alphabet?

The reason the .srt file works is because it actually has english words with the correct timings?!