char encoding change doesn't affects subtitles

daggs · August 20, 2021 at 4:18 PM

Greetings,

I've encountered a strange issue with subtitles, for some reason, the text is not displayed as letters, but as unrecognizable chars.

the issue persists when I select the other encoding possible.

I'm running LE 10RC1 on x86_64.

it worked on LE9.x

has anyone encountered such issue?

Thanks,

Dagg

**Klojum** · August 20, 2021 at 6:10 PM Official Post

Try selecting the Arial font, it contains more charsets than the default font.

Which country language is involved?

daggs · August 23, 2021 at 9:20 PM

Quote from Klojum

Try selecting the Arial font, it contains more charsets than the default font.
Which country language is involved?

Greetings,

tried that too, no dice.
the language in question is hebrew.
I'm using the opensubtitles addon but in netflix, subtitles look ok

**Klojum** · August 24, 2021 at 3:54 AM Official Post

Quote from daggs

tried that too, no dice.

Adding a TTF font specific to Hebrew is your next best bet.

daggs · August 26, 2021 at 7:18 PM

can you point me to a doc where it is explained how to add a new font?

**Klojum** · August 26, 2021 at 8:28 PM Official Post

Quote from daggs

can you point me to a doc where it is explained how to add a new font?

It's okay to use Google from time to time, it's amazing what you'll find.

Such as this link: additional ttf fonts for subtitle

daggs · August 26, 2021 at 10:31 PM

I've actually looked, didn't found anything meaningful, thanks for the link

btw, the proposed fix in the link didn't worked, see:

Code

LibreELEC:~ # ls -l /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts
total 22732
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      23275812 Aug 26 00:24 Arial Unicode MS.TTF

as mentioned before, I've saw this thread, the reason I didn't tried it is because the folder didn't existed, I've assumed that if it doesn't exists, than the functionally was move elsewhere and I didn't found such location

**Klojum** · August 27, 2021 at 7:43 AM Official Post

Quote from daggs

I've assumed that if it doesn't exists, than the functionally was move elsewhere and I didn't found such location

Nope... If the folder doesn't exist, simply create it. Just like files such as autostart.sh or advancedsettings.xml .

**mglae** · August 27, 2021 at 8:31 AM

Guess: .TTF is not .ttf

daggs · August 27, 2021 at 10:59 AM

kodi restart is enough? if so, it didn;t worked, I fave no change in the num of entries (2, default and ariel based)

**vpeter** · August 27, 2021 at 12:05 PM

What about if you post this problematic subtitle file and someone can replicate the issue?

**mglae** · August 27, 2021 at 12:48 PM

Subtitle font selection is at Settings -> player settings -> language. You have to use Expert Level.

daggs · August 27, 2021 at 1:26 PM

Quote from vpeter

What about if you post this problematic subtitle file and someone can replicate the issue?

it's not one file, every file I get using the opensubtitles addon has these issues.

however, subtitles in netflix are displayed ok

Quote from mglae

Subtitle font selection is at Settings -> player settings -> language. You have to use Expert Level.

not under settings->interface->fonts?

I'm using LE 10

mglae,

thanks for the info, I was looking in the wrong place!