Foreign characters not displaying correctly
Posted: Fri 12 Oct 2012, 22:58
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...
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...