anon6969 Posted March 1, 2009 at 03:59 AM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 03:59 AM (edited) I have a problem with the subtitles I am downloading from shooter.cn: When I open them in WordPad they come out garbled like so: ÎäÊõΪÖйúµÄ¹úÊõ This is how they look like as subtitles in the movies too. Please help me fix this so I can see the Chinese characters! Edited March 1, 2009 at 06:44 AM by anon6969 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted March 1, 2009 at 05:13 AM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 05:13 AM You will need to either set the default non-unicode language to be Chinese, which can be done in: Control Panel->Regional and Language Settings->Advanced and then set the language for non-Unicode applications to be Chinese (PRC), or you can use AppLocale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon6969 Posted March 1, 2009 at 07:20 AM Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 07:20 AM Ok. After changing the Unicode setting to Chinese, when I open the .srt file in Wordpad I can see Chinese Characters. However if I play the movie in VLC player the subtitles look like squares: ▢,▢▢,▢▢▢ Also I installed the AppLocale program (hard to do in Vista) but don't know how to use it once installed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrPetersen Posted March 1, 2009 at 08:40 AM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 08:40 AM I always used this programm to fix corrupted files. Goto "programs --> email fixer". Copy paste the stuff back and forth and save your file as UTF8. There also is an online version. Goto http://www.mandarintools.com/ and chose "Email fixer". I guess imron's way is more elegant, but if you VLC can't deal with it the way above should still have some merit. I used VLC for quiet a long time, since I am no fan of codecs to install. But some time ago I switched to the KMPlayer, it's a Korean mediaplayer which does the same as the VLC player but is faster and feels more smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon6969 Posted March 1, 2009 at 02:28 PM Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 02:28 PM Is KMplayer similar (the same?) as the Chinese Storm Player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrPetersen Posted March 1, 2009 at 02:38 PM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 02:38 PM Haven't looked at the StormPlayer. I guess it is a different one. Here a link to the KMPlayer: http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiantian Posted March 1, 2009 at 06:54 PM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 06:54 PM Just set the subtitlefont in the VLC properties to a chinese font and set the encoding to GB (or BIG5 for traditional chars). Best font to use is arialuni.ttf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted March 1, 2009 at 07:09 PM Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 at 07:09 PM However if I play the movie in VLC player the subtitles look like squares: ▢,▢▢,▢▢▢ Yes, this looks like a font problem. Choose the subtitle font that has the characters you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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