[MPlayer-users] mplayer unable to correclt displays utf-8 characters with accents

[Vitezslav Kotrla]

Zé píše v Ne 11. 11. 2007 v 05:32 +0100:
> I have been trying to see movies with .srt subtiles in utf-8 but gmaplyer it 
> simply doest displays correct the characters that have accents like ã, ã, ẽ, 
> é, etc, instead it just shows a ? but upside down.

You wrote about gmplayer, but what about mplayer? Also check your
~/.mplayer/subfont.tff. Set it as symlink to DejaVuSans.ttf,
or any other appropriate Unicode font.

> The only way so far to see subtitles correctly is to converting them from 
> utf-8 into iso-8859-15.
> ...
> Im using mplayer svn release 24992

24907 here, but UTF-8 subtitles have been working for some years. Check
your font.

Vit