Chinese Subtitles don't work

[ZioSerpe]

This setting worked for me...Universal, Chinese (GB18030)

Easiest solution, got completly ignored.

You people went crazy in this thread while it was all very simple

Change Text rendering to a font that has chinese characters (ex. MingLiU wich should be installed by default in any windows machine) then change default encoding to Universal, Chinese (GB18030) and it will display the .srt file correctly.

I even ended up making an account here... all this for Footloose

[geovens]

This setting worked for me...Universal, Chinese (GB18030)

Easiest solution, got completly ignored.

You people went crazy in this thread while it was all very simple

Change Text rendering to a font that has chinese characters (ex. MingLiU wich should be installed by default in any windows machine) then change default encoding to Universal, Chinese (GB18030) and it will display the .srt file correctly.

I even ended up making an account here... all this for Footloose

1. What works for you does not work for everyone.
2. Please analyze and explain in detail why it works for you, or the post is worthless and stupid.

[supermann]

For VLC itself, this is just what worked for me.

Tools tab -> Preferences -> Subtitles and OSD

For simplified subs, select "Simplified Chinese Unix (EUC-CN)"
For traditional subs, select "Traditional Chinese (Big5)"

Now the tricky part. Each Chinese font can display simplified, traditional, or both types of Chinese. Also your fonts will differ depending on what Chinese software/language packs you have downloaded.
ie. Microsoft Yahei -> simplified Chinese
Microsoft Jhenghei -> traditional Chinese
DFKai-SB -> both

This method still works as of 11/1/2015. My VLC player finally works on Windows 10. I have given it up for years. I am a loyal media player classic v1.7.9 guy, but folks using Mac don't have the latter, so they have to stick with VLC. A friend of mine using Mac El Capitan confirms this method works.

This garbled Chinese problem used to occur on the VLC app on iPhone, too. But as of the 10/21/2015 version, it has been fixed.

[wonderland]

A better solution for Mac and Windows users:

Universal / Chinese encoding

Chinese-friendly fonts:

AdobeMingStd or GB18030Bitmap (these fonts are nicer for Chinese than the Arial unicode)

[dalix]

You should try downloading the GB18030 to Unicode Conversion Tool (gbunicnv.exe) from the Microsoft website. You just need to save the subtitle file to .txt to do the conversion.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=40334