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liro · Joined: 28 Jul 2012 Posts: 101

I've downloaded a film subtitle in Polish from www.opensubtitles.org. On the download page it gives you the option to preview the first part of the subtitle text. When I do this (in Firefox) the subtitles display fine with the proper Polish letters.

However, after downloading the subtitle text file, it doesn't display correctly in any other program in Puppy (Abiword, Geany, leafpad) or when I try to actually load it as a subtitle in Mplayer.

To give an example of what I mean: "Święty Mikołaj" appears as "wiêty Miko³aj", "Wesołych Świąt" as "Weso³ych wi¹t!", etc...

Three things I should add:
1) I had this exact same problem in Windows and fixed it by changing the language settings to Polish, after which the subtitle texts automatically displayed correctly.

2) I've tried changing the default language in Puppy to Polish, and also installing the Polish language pack, but this didn't make any difference.

3) Without doing any of the above, I actually had the same subtitles displaying correctly in all of the above-mentioned programs a couple of months ago, but like a fool can't remember how I did it :|.

Thanks for any help with this...

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 572

Cześć Liro.

I had the same problem and found 3 workarounds so far.

1. Usually changing the codepage works, in example of Gnome-mplayer:
Edit -> Preferences -> Language Settings -> File Metadata Encoding -> CP1250

2. If 1 doesn't work, try to use this to convert the subtitle file:

liro · Joined: 28 Jul 2012 Posts: 101

Cześć SFR! Dziękuję za opowiedź.

I had already tried your options 1 and 3. In fact, I'm pretty sure that changing the encoding in Gnome-mplayer to CP1250 was how I fixed this last time (so I don't know why it doesn't work now :[). The "find and replace" method was what I did at first in Windows, but it took me ages and I still managed to miss out a couple of Polish capital letters.

I've just tried your option 2 (I had to download the iconv.pet as I didn't have it installed), but unfortunately it just gives me the message "conversion from Windows-1250 is not supported" :/

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 572

adnan360 · Joined: 21 Nov 2012 Posts: 1

I have had a problem with Bangla text viewing myself. I am using Slacko Puppy 5.3.3

Problem:

- I could not see Bangla language (unicode) text on seamonkey. Only boxes where unicode characters should be.
- I could see the same boxes in the Setup > puppy setup> personalization dialog... in the language under bn (Bangla) entry

Solution (thanks to jiohdi and iluminameluna at IRC):

1. Downloaded the font for Bangla. In my case it was "SolaimanLipi" which is freely downloadable (google it)

2. Opened the terminal and su and then entered rox and then created a directory /root/.fonts

3. Copied the downloaded font in /root/.fonts

Now the font is showing in every place. and even the setup dialog.

Amazing how it works. But it works!!