Japanese subtitle not showing correctly

[Akhet]

when i use virtualdub to encode my vid with subs it works fine except that the japanese text does not appear correctly. it looks like this : $%^#$&^%$&^

obviously this is an issue with encoding, but i dont know what to do. when i open my subfile in notepad the japanese is displayed perfectly.

[kschang]

What did you use in VDub to display the subs? VSFilter? Did you select the codepage?

[jagabo]

Your subs are Unicode, ShiftJIS, or some such. I'm not sure if the VirtualDub sub filters can handle that.

[Skith]

you could try setting your regional settings for non-unicodes programs to japanese in control panel (you will have to reboot, and all backslashes in explorer will look like yen symbols).

control panel -> regional and language options -> advanced tab -> Language for non-unicode programs (drop down box) select Japanese. -> click OK -> Reboot.

Be warned, installing some programs when running japanese codepage can result in those programs using japanese text. Nero is one example.

[celtic_druid]

TextSub supports unicode/UTF-8 and has a drop down list for ANSI subs.