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1. VLC plays the same uPnP streaming. I am using DVBviewer uPnP service for testing. Connected to the uPnP server, select a TV channel, but it's show the another channel, then I select a new channel. but it still plays the previous wrong channel. VLC for IOS 2.1.3 doesn't have this problem.

2. Subtitle file ".ass" with styles setting still can't display correct. it only shows rectangular shape fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean...non-western language. However, the color, location, size...etc display correctly. Even, I edit the subtitle file and change the font name that shows inside /System/Library/Fonts/Cache or the font name show inside VLC but no luck.

3. Embedded subtitle inside mkv with styles setting also has same problem. Embedded subtitle without styles setting display Chinese, Japanese correctly.

Is it possible add the on/off option lets VLC subtitle function to overwrite the styles setting inside the subtitle file or embedded subtitle ? or is it possible add the correct/additional fonts inside VLC document folder with the movie. So VLC can shows the correct subtitle language ?

1. VLC plays the same uPnP streaming. I am using DVBviewer uPnP service for testing. Connected to the uPnP server, select a TV channel, but it's show the another channel, then I select a new channel. but it still plays the previous wrong channel. VLC for IOS 2.1.3 doesn't have this problem.

Got the same issue and posted it here: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=116839

1) This is a known regression, thanks for the report! I'm looking into it right now.
2) Yep, this is a limitation of the ass subtitle renderer. We hope to solve it later this year thanks to an update to the underlying libass library.
3) Those are most likely also ass-encoded subs. Asian languages are correctly supported for plain text, though.

I have found a temp fix for non-western subtitle that shows rectangle if you have a jailbreak device. I found VLC for IOS will use "OpenSans-Regular.ttf" in VLC folder if the font file cant be found. So, what you need to do is replace "OpenSans-Regular.ttf" with the language that you need.