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ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby shibuone » 08 Jan 2009 07:29

Hello All,
I am trying to see Hindi(Indian Language) subtitle using VLC. I can see only the "?" . I have already tried setting Arial Unicode for font and UTF-8 as encoding. I guess Hindi uses ISCII instead of UTF-8. Can some one help me on this?
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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 Jan 2009 11:47

Try to force the ISCII encoding in sutitles preferences.
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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby shibuone » 08 Jan 2009 18:01

J-b,
Thanks for your reply. You mean changing subsdec-encoding section in vlcrc file. That did not work for me. I am sure I am using Unicode font but not sure whether it is UTF8 or ISCII. Please find the test srt file attached.

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,400
मैं क्या करता / करती हूँ

2
00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,800
यह क्या है


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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby VLC_help » 09 Jan 2009 18:24

Those chars are UTF8 (at least I assume so because they show up correctly).

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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby shibuone » 10 Jan 2009 10:35

OK, Any clue why it is showing up '?' instead of the words. I am using VLC Media Player 1.0.0- git-20081123-0005 Goldeneye.
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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby VLC_help » 10 Jan 2009 17:20

You could try newer builds.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D (trunks are 1.0.0)

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Re: ISCII Encoding subtitle

Postby mathfeel » 22 Jan 2009 08:16

You could try newer builds.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D (trunks are 1.0.0)
I am having the same problem with UTF-8 srt subtitle that chinese/japanese characters just show up as a box regardless what font file I use. After much googleing, I have pretty much gave up and just am waiting for a new release version that support this.

BTW, can anyone clarify should the UTF-8 file have BOM?


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