Spanish punctuation on subtitles/closed caption

elrd · February 23, 2018 at 1:30 AM

I may be asking the obvious here, but I seem to be having trouble with closed caption or subtitles for Spanish text. When viewing a spanish station, I can get the closed caption, but there is no punctuation with it (accent marks, upside down question mark). On a regular tv viewing the same program, I can get the punctuation. I have set the language options for subtitles, but I don't think that has to do with the close caption anyway.

I am running Libreelec with TvHeadEnd on Raspberry Pi.

Any advice? Thanks.

**chewitt** · February 25, 2018 at 12:42 PM Official Post

The default fonts should handle Spanish diacriticals. Check the subtitles show correctly in another player app like VLC. If they don't, the recordings didn't save the subs correctly. If they do .. no idea.

elrd · February 27, 2018 at 10:22 PM

Thank you for your suggested test.

I did try VLC after you suggested it, and the captions were fine with all the diacriticals (thanks for the good terminology).

I also tried streaming real time, using the TVHClient app on android, to stream a channel from TVHeadEnd on the Libreelec system to VLC on android, and the subtitles were also fine. It is only when I play it on Libreelec, that all the diacriticals go away. I don't recall if I also tried playing a recording via "Video" menu rather than "Recordings" menu. I tried various combinations of language/character set , all with the same results. It could maybe be something I don't have configured properly, or maybe about the TVH client that is running on Libreelec?

**chewitt** · February 28, 2018 at 3:04 AM Official Post

Next step is to use a current milhouse (Leia) release. If the issue is still present, then we start looking for where the bug is.

elrd · March 11, 2018 at 3:52 AM

On Leia, latest build 0310, I cannot get the diacriticals. Is there any other place I need to make setting other than the player->language settings? Though I don't believe those setting matter a whole lot, since I can choose subtitle options while playing the channel.

elrd · March 20, 2018 at 12:34 AM

I have tried various combinations of fonts I found on line, with provided character sets. Sometimes I notice where an accented character belongs, the character is missing (that is a little promising). But I still can't get this to work. I have managed to get the upside down exclamation point sometimes, but that is as far as I could get. Could this be related to the "character sets", and if so, how do I add other character sets?