unreadable greek subtitles

[ioakim]

I have some movies and their external greek subtitles in .srt format. I have in my pc Windows Vista Ultimate Greek and when I open the avi file the Greek fonts of the greek subtitles are unreadable. I use the VLC media player.
I also opened the .srt file of the subtitles and the greek fonts there are also unreadable(just like these----ÌåôÜöñáóç êáé). What can I do to fix this problem? What do I have to change so that I can see the correct greek fonts while playing the avi file?

[ron spencer]

this is news? better fix

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our subtitle section.

[jman98]

You're not going to like what you have to do to make this work.

First you have to determine what format the subtitles are in. Are they in Unicode or some Greek code page? If they are in Unicode then that means that VLC doesn't support Unicode. I have no idea if it does or not. If they are not in Unicode, then you have to go to Control Panel -> Date, Time, Language and Regional Options -> Regional and Language Options -> Advanced and under "Select a language to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs you want to use" you have to pick Greek. Reboot. If you are lucky, the subtitles will now work. However, many of your programs may now display garbage characters when you try to use them as they are now trying to use Greek fonts for anything installed that is not in Unicode.

You may also check to see if various Greek packages are installed under "Advanced" (get to it as I said above) and install any that are missing. If you install all the Greek packages there is some chance that you may be able to read the subtitles without having to do what I talked about above.