How to display foreign language characters in srt file?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Live & Live Plus
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 how to display  foreign language characters with external subtitle srt file ?

It displayed fine on VCL but with WDLive it showed square box for

certain specific characters ?   Am I decode the srt wrong?

ex. : chắc chắn có người mà các hạ ko bao giờ muốn dính vào.

WDLive :  chc chn có ngi m cc h ko bao gi mun dnh vo.

Please advise how to rectify this problem. thanks

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Did you change the additional language encoding?

settings > System> then use the drop down to change the additional language support

Also What language?

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it’s Vietnamese and I tried them all , no luck.

I wonder if WD liveTV  do not support Unicode.

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If they are not supported when the SRT is UTF-8 you gotta convert them with AVIAddXSubs to bitmaps.

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you got it.  Hit the nail on the head.  Vietnamese is not supported

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I completely forgot about that.  Yes you can convert to a bitmap and have them display because it will see it as a picture rather then characters.

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I tried AVIAddXSubs, but some characters won’t be able to be bitmapped , specially the characters that have double accents

ie. srt file : " Số    người  chết      được     trên  2  triệu "

bitmap     : " S[?] ngư[?]i ch[?]t ]  [?]ư[?]c  trên  2  tri[?]u"

I had pm the AVIAddSubs author at Domm9 for this. we’ll see if the problem can be fixed.

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Well done, in the meantime you might wanna try Subtitle Creator (load srt, save as vobsub) which also does this as I just remembered.

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Techflaws wrote:

Well done, in the meantime you might wanna try Subtitle Creator (load srt, save as vobsub) which also does this as I just remembered.

Thanks Techflaws, it is finally working with Subtitle Creator.  I’m so happy  even though I have to convert about 30 SRT files :slight_smile: