Strange Characters in Subtitle Editing -using accents and diacritic marks

[devilcoelhodog]

Hello, dear all.

I have had some problems with some subtitles that I have here.

When I open it using Subtitle Workshop the program "doesn't process it right", altering all the letters for strange symbols or characters.

See above two examples, in srt format:


1) Open Using Subtitle Worshop:

"Deixe a oposição ter
as avaliações altas".

2) Open Using Subtitle Edit:

"Deixe a oposição ter
as avaliações altas".

In the second case, the program open is correctly, using UTF-8 coding.

But, what intrigues me what can I do to solve such problem when editing the subtitles using Subtitle Worshop and other similar programs too? If I do not correct the subtitle first, when I use it with ConvertXtoDVD, for example, the subtitle appear in dvd format all wrong too, with strange/wrong characters and letters.

In my language, brazilian portuguese, we use Diacritic Marks, jus like the examples below:


---> http://www.businessballs.com/diacriticalmarks.htm

---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic

How can I configure Subtitle Worshop ( and similar subtitling programs ) to open, save and edit similar subtitles in a correct way?

Any tip for solving such issues?

Thanks for helping.

Best regards.

devil (johner)

[jman98]

I have talked about this before.

Most subtitle programs do NOT work correctly with Unicode files unless the Unicode subtitles file is in English.

There are 2 solutions.
1) Under Control Panel -> Region and Language -> Administrative (may be different in XP but this is where it is under Win 7) where it says "Language for non-Unicode programs" you must change this to Portuguese (Brazil) and it may fix the problem. You may have to reboot.
2) Copy and paste the subtitles and save them using a code page that understands Brazilian punctuation like ISO-8859-1 - NOT in any Unicode format. If you are lucky you will be able to open them in Subtitle Workshop and they will work.

[devilcoelhodog]

Hello!

Thanks for your help! I could understand and solve the problems here.

To see properly in Subtitle Workshop ( without errors or strange letters and symbols) I did as you recommend in second tip. I create an empty txt file, open the problematic srt , copy the content on it and paste it in txt file. Save the txt using wordpad ou notepad, for example. And after that, I open this txt file with Subtitle Workshop. After that, I save this txt opened file into a NEW srt file. Done. Here, in my case, I could create a new file without errors, according to my accents and diacritic marks language ( brazilian portuguese). In this situation, I can work using Subtitle Workshop without errors in letters.

After that, if I wanna use ConvertXtoDVD and this new worked and edited subttile, I need use another step to work nice. I open this new edited subtitle using Subtitle Edit. And save this srt AGAIN, but using 1252: Western Europe ( Windows) for encoding the subtitle. Or export it into sub/idx format. Bingo. This way ConvertXtoDVD can process my subtitle without any issues or errors. maybe get work for other softwares too, I do not know.

Well, again, thanks for your insight and help here!

Best regards.

devil (johner)