VLC is now using a unicode font that can display all Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters correctly. You might need to restart VLC after changing these font settings. If Arial Unicode MS is not in the list, you can download and install it from here
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Now make sure the font is set to Arial Unicode MS, other unicode fonts should also work. Use subtitles with unicode UTF-8 encoding and use a unicode font.
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Step 3: expand the Subtitles / OSD item, and select text renderer. A simple guide on how to fix VLC displaying srt subtitles as weird symbols, boxes or question marks. Step 2: in the bottom left corner of the preferences screen underneath show settings, select the all radiobutton Step 1: open the VLC settings by pressing Ctrl+ P or by going to Tools > Preferences If you are sure the file is encoded in UTF-8 but the subtitles still show up as boxes or weird symbols, you should make sure you are using the right font in VLC. As soon as I changed laptops (went from Windows 7 to Windows 10) the Fonts in the PDF's are now encoded with 'Identity-H' with a font type of 'Truetype (CID)' instead of 'Truetype' with ANSI encoding which means none of the characters in the address box can be read by Bing Mailroom in order to extract the address text and mail them out in bulk. You can easily convert a text file to unicode with the convert to UTF-8 tool.
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You need to convert the subtitles to UTF-8 for them to be readable in VLC. txt and edit the encoding or formatting of a spreadsheet to match a working example, and then change the extension back to. If needed, you can change the extension of the spreadsheet from.
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Followed by the formatting schemas, and then formatting for the worksheet. The second picture is the same file converted to UTF-8, displaying correctly. Notice the type of encoding is at the top. The first picture shows a file using Chinese text encoding, and can't be read by Notepad or VLC.