Russian / Cyrillic subtitle characters displaying (????????)

[troyvcd1]

I took an english dvd and I am trying to make russian subtitles with it. I used subrip to create a correct english subtitle text file. I can import this test file into subtitle workshop and dvdlabpro with no problem. I used a translater and copied and pasted the russian subtitles. I can display these russian characters in notepad, wordpad and even microsoft word. When I try to import these characters into subtitle workshop and dvdlabpro all I get are ????????????????? characters. I tried everything I could and tried to convert to various formats but I am having no luck.

[Tommyknocker]

Could you list what you have tried so far?

[steptoe]

That sounds like those packages don't support the Cyrillics character set, software tends to display nonense characters when it can't handle a character set it doesn't have support for

[troyvcd1]

I think that subtitle workshop should accept these characters. If I type them in manually using the keyboard set to russian then it will display these characters correctly. If I cut and paste then I get the ?????'s. I can cut and paste them into dvdmaestro but I see no way to insert a whole text file into maestro. I think I am just missing something.

[Gregg]

Use SubtitleTool. It accepts and displays Cyrillic subtitles. If you work with Maestro save the file as .ssa file. Use MaestroSBT to convert to .son.

Enjoy!

[troyvcd1]

I can not find Subtitle Tool. Does anyone know where to download it.

[BJ_M]

http://www.tomzavodny.cz/program/subtool/index_en.php

[troyvcd1]

I tried subtitle tool and I get the same ??????? when trying to cut and paste the cyrillic characters. If I try to type in cyrillic characters I dont get the ???????'s but I get a bunch of jibberish.

[troyvcd1]

wow this sucks. Am I the only one who ever wanted to put russian subtitle in a movie????

[Tommyknocker]

I was wondering. Did you want permanent or selectable titles?

[troyvcd1]

i want selectable. I can make the english selectables no problem.

[pijetro]

Just a shot in the dark, but do you have the Ciryllic fonts in your system ie: Fonts subfolder??

[troyvcd1]

I finally got it figured out. I needed to change the unicode settings in the regional language control panel screen to russian. Then I needed to save the file as a wordpad text file. Supposebly notepad was not able to save it in a correct format.