Description of problem: I'm having problems with encoding of subtitles. I've tried all options that VLC offers and all accented words appear (?) In place of the accented letter. I ran VLC with -- verbose to see the error, put down the principal errors: [0x7f9d14c1f978] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding. Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file. [0x7f9d14c1f978] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding. Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file. I tried all character-encoding: Windows-1252 (default); Universal (UTF-8); Universal (UTF-16); Oeste Europeo (Latin-9); Leste Europeo (Latin-2); and so on..., etc.; I have not found the ISO-8859-1... When I use smplayer it has the option Ocidental(ISO-8859-1) and the accents are correct. However, VLC offers only Default(Windows-1252) that does not work accents. I tried to manually set with the option of "vlc --module subsdec" and did not work too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vlc-2.0.3-2.2.mga2.src.rpm How reproducible: When running VLC with videos that use subtitles ISO-8859-1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run VLC 2. Load subtitles SRT ISO-8859-1 3. Accented words appear (?) Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Hardware: i586 => x86_64
what about vlc 2.0.6 from testing ?
it is with the same problem https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9155#c6
2.0.8 is in updates_testing now
CC: (none) => marja11
Do you think this is a Mageia bug? Is there the same problem in other distributions? If so this would be an upstream bug. If not we would have to investigate why Mageia's vlc has this problem.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => shlomif, stormi
Note: to my knowledge, accents are encoded the same in ISO-8859-1 and latin9 (aka ISO-8859-15), the only difference being the ⬠symbol.
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