[MPlayer-dev-eng] MKV files and subtitles charset

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 05 August 2006 at 19:09, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:39, Alexander 'Lazy Ranma' Ponyatikh wrote:
> 
> > > I have 'subcp = cp1251' in my configuration file and seems like it also
> > > affects MKV files resulting in wrong charset being displayed.
> >
> > try subcp=enca:ru:utf8 as workaround
> 
> Thanks, I already found the same workaround myself even before reporting this
> problem :)
> 
> But Evgeniy was quite fast at rolling out a patch, it seems to work fine for
> both internal and external subtitles (internal subtitles use UTF-8, external
> use subcp).
> 
> PS. While testing external subtitles, found one more interesting thing
> (probably that behaviour is intended and is not a bug). If I explicitly
> provide external subtitle file using -sub option, internal subtitle
> is still prefered if it matches slang mask. 

Yes. -slang means "select the subtitle with specified lang among those
available", so if there was a way to specify lang for external subs,
it should work with them, too.

Regards,
R.

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