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[malimali]

Media player on Vu+ solo2 not encode in Central European letter right, what i need to do to fix that i will attach .srt subtitle file to see some of the team, letter is è æ Æ ð ž š Æ for Balcan

Edited by malimali, 27 March 2016 - 13:30.

[malimali]

Please help, how to fix media player to read Balcan subtitles or some instructions

[malimali]

Thanks to all

 

 

Please close the topic

[Heppieboeddah]

It could be that nobody has an answer to you're question.

[Erik Slagter]

Media player on Vu+ solo2 not encode in Central European letter right, what i need to do to fix that i will attach .srt subtitle file to see some of the team, letter is è æ Æ ð ž š Æ for Balcan

Enigma operates completely in Unicode (UTF-8) mode. It has no preferrence or knowledge of special "balcan" or any other (e.g. Chinese, Arabic) characters. If you take care that the srt is in UTF-8 encoding, it will just work. But srt files are often encoded in one of the dreaded Microsoft "code pages". That's not enigma's fault, enigma is not Microsoft, it adheres to open standards.

 

Only solution is to convert your srt files to UTF-8 yourself.

[Erik Slagter]

BTW why name your topic "media player" if you want to ask a question about subtitles?

[oldgraf]

Media player on Vu+ solo2 not encode in Central European letter right, what i need to do to fix that i will attach .srt subtitle file to see some of the team, letter is è æ Æ ð ž š Æ for Balcan

I use Mediaplayer2 and Subssupport with external subtitle. No need to utf8 encoding

[christophecvr]

Well yes , but for other language subs like French to have them perfect UTF-8 failes also . I do not know if it possible but can another ascii code chart be used in function off language but some of the isoxxxx languages code charts.

 

It's for letters like é è l'aigle être and à ç which are giving strange results in subtitles provided like for example on srg Switzerland. but also French channels.

Edited by christophecvr, 5 May 2016 - 14:10.

[athoik]

Please try to use UTF-8 with BOM. Does it fails?

[christophecvr]

Please try to use UTF-8 with BOM. Does it fails?

How to do that ?

[athoik]

Use notepad++ has an option to save file as UTF8 with or without BOM.

[christophecvr]

Use notepad++ has an option to save file as UTF8 with or without BOM.

Yes but I do work with direct live broadcasted dvbsubtitles I mean on real channels (not streaming or so srt subtitles downloaded from net) . I do not have notepad eighter do I have windows.

Edited by christophecvr, 5 May 2016 - 16:44.

[athoik]

The problem is media player using extrernal subtitles or something else?

[Erik Slagter]

I use Mediaplayer2 and Subssupport with external subtitle. No need to utf8 encoding

Yes, you will need *some* sort of encoding. ASCII has no accented characters. What you think of "no encoding" is probably some Microsoft code page, which is also an encoding, but it's only valid for a very small number of languages whereas UTF-8 is valid for *all* languages (well, almost). So don't be stubborn

Edited by Erik Slagter, 5 May 2016 - 16:54.

[oldgraf]

Before found subsuport i use this script to convert cyrilic subs to utf8

#!/bin/bash
echo -ne '\xEF\xBB\xBF' > "$1.utf8" && iconv -f WINDOWS-1251 -t utf-8 < "$1" >> "$1.utf8" && mv "$1.utf8" "$1"
exit 0

[athoik]

And you are using BOM

[oldgraf]

I rember there are problem some time without BOM on solo2 with Blackhole or OBH and internal mediaplayer

[Erik Slagter]

This is something that needs some TLC from us. The specification explicitly states that a BOM is not required for UTF-8 and even disencourages the use of it. UTF-8 principally does not need a BOM (because all elements are only 1 byte).

 

I guess the original enigma developers tried to go easy on the users and assume IEC 8859-1 (latin-1) encoding when no BOM is present or UTF-8 when it is. But it's wrong anyway because users tend to not use latin-1 but windows western instead.

[malimali]

 

Media player on Vu+ solo2 not encode in Central European letter right, what i need to do to fix that i will attach .srt subtitle file to see some of the team, letter is è æ Æ ð ž š Æ for Balcan

Enigma operates completely in Unicode (UTF-8) mode. It has no preferrence or knowledge of special "balcan" or any other (e.g. Chinese, Arabic) characters. If you take care that the srt is in UTF-8 encoding, it will just work. But srt files are often encoded in one of the dreaded Microsoft "code pages". That's not enigma's fault, enigma is not Microsoft, it adheres to open standards.

 

Only solution is to convert your srt files to UTF-8 yourself.

 

Yes mate, i convert subtitle file .srt to UTF-8 and all letter are here, thanks to all

 

[malimali]

BTW why name your topic "media player" if you want to ask a question about subtitles?

I just liked to write Media Player Subtitles but is happen mistake media player