Subtitles problem - Big 5 .srt

[Tal]

Hi folks.

I'm English but I live and work in China.

I use the VLC Media Player on my PC and love it.

Sometimes I like to show movies to Chinese friends. It can be difficult to find subtitles for many things but sometimes I'm lucky.

At the moment I have 2 .srt files for a particular movie. One is in English and works fine. The other is "Big 5" (which I think is Chinese, correct me if I'm wrong anyone.) Anyway the Big 5 one won't work. At all.

Now it could be regional settings or some such, I know. But I'm running VLC (with English as the selected language) on a PC with a Chinese version of Windows. Everything's Chinese except for various things that I've put on it to use, such as VLC.

Any ideas anyone? I'd be grateful for any help.

[DJ]

Windows is divided into groups as far as languages are concerned. You will need to select the correct ISO character set for subtitles. This is available in Preferences, Input / Codecs, Other codecs, Subtitles "Subtitles text encoding" or in advanced settings when selecting an external subtitle, under "Subtitle text encoding".

http://alis.isoc.org/codage/iso8859/jeuxiso.en.htm
ISO Standard for various characters sets

[Tal]

Ah thanks, that gets something displaying, shame that there's obviously something amiss with the file anyway.

[dionoea]

You might need to try all the encodings listed to get it to work really well.

[Tal]

Tried them, no joy. C'est la vie!