In-line :-
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 16:40, Ariel <asmarillat@???> wrote:
>
> I edited your message to leave in only the errors that are related.
Thank you Ariel.
> Basically your locale is set wrong. It appears to be set to a blank string?
How were you able to get that ?
> I'm not sure what you need to do to fix it, but at least you know what to
> check.
>
> Also, please investigate the --subsdec-encoding option to vlc to explicitly
> tell it what character encoding your subtitle file is using.
It was not apparent via vlc --help but did get it after trawling through vlc -H
--subsdec-encoding
{,UTF-8,UTF-16,UTF-16BE,UTF-16LE,GB18030,ISO-8859-15,Windows-1252,ISO-8859-2,Windows-1250,ISO-8859-3,ISO-8859-10,Windows-1251,KOI8-R,KOI8-U,ISO-8859-6,Windows-1256,ISO-8859-7,Windows-1253,ISO-8859-8,Windows-1255,ISO-8859-9,Windows-1254,ISO-8859-11,Windows-874,ISO-8859-13,Windows-1257,ISO-8859-14,ISO-8859-16,ISO-2022-CN-EXT,EUC-CN,ISO-2022-JP-2,EUC-JP,Shift_JIS,CP949,ISO-2022-KR,Big5,ISO-2022-TW,Big5-HKSCS,VISCII,Windows-1258}
Subtitles text encoding
Set the encoding used in text subtitles
--subsdec-autodetect-utf8, --no-subsdec-autodetect-utf8
UTF-8 subtitles autodetection (default enabled)
This enables automatic detection of UTF-8 encoding within
subtitles files. (default enabled)
I see/saw that vlc configuration file is kept in .config/vlc/vlcrc
file. These are things I saw in there (just taking the ones which
would be interesting to what I'm looking for) :-
# Subtitles format (string)
#sub-type=auto
This I guess should be commented out.
[subsdec] # Text subtitles decoder
# Subtitles justification (integer)
#subsdec-align=0
# Subtitles text encoding (string)
subsdec-encoding=UTF-16
# UTF-8 subtitles autodetection (boolean)
#subsdec-autodetect-utf8=1
# Formatted Subtitles (boolean)
#subsdec-formatted=1
The file in question is an SRT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRT_file_extension
and using file it told me its a ISO-8859 text
$ file somefilename.srt
somefilename.srt: Pascal source, ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
Ok, so please lemme know if the subtitle encoding could be set something like :-
subsdec-encoding=UTF-16,ISO-8859 or it has to choose ?
> -Ariel
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