Feature #2189
Add ability to select and set encoding for the subtitle via videoplayback page menu
| Status: | New | Start date: | 06/02/2014 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Andreas Smas | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | Subtitles | |||
| Target version: | 5.2 |
Description
Example on this subtitle: http://dl.opensubtitles.org/en/download/filead/src-api/vrf-f06df95e1a/1953179741.gz
Auto-detection fails and subtitle is decoded as ISO-8859-7 (detected language: el).
Showtime configured to automatically detect charsets (default charset = auto)
History
#1
Updated by Ema Nymton over 8 years ago
Any ideas on how to make the subtitle auto detection engine more robust? This is not the first bug report mentioning bad parsing 
#2
Updated by Leonid Protasov almost 8 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
- Subject changed from Subtitles encoded in GB2312 (Simplied) not detected properly to Add ability to select and set encoding for the subtitle via videoplayback page menu
- Target version set to 5.0
#3
Updated by Andreas Smas almost 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 5.0 to 5.2
#4
Updated by Ema Nymton over 7 years ago
No possibility of having it in 5.0? Most of the Mandarin subs I use fail autodetection. As Rural Hunter suggested, implementing GBK would solve most of the issues.