On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, shirish wrote:
> cannot convert from
> UTF-16,ISO-8859-2,ISO-8859-3,ISO-8859-10,ISO-8859-11,ISO-8859-13,ISO-8859-14,ISO-8859-15,ISO-8859-16:
> Invalid argument
> Didn't know there were that many ISO-8859 type formats. Couldn't just
> typing ISO-8859-* tell it to see between the different formats and
> display them ?
It's not really possible to automatically tell the difference between the
different ISO formats. To the computer it's just numbers - it has no idea
what characters those numbers are supposed to represent without being
told.
You may want to just convert your subtitles to UTF-8 and forget all about
ISO formats. Otherwise you will have to figure out which one it is (each
represents a different language, google it to figure out which is which)
and explicitly tell vlc.
ISO formats are basically obsolete, the world is moving to UTF-8, so if
you can convert your subtitles that would be best. Or course the converter
will also need to know which ISO format they are so it can convert properly.
-Ariel
