for the previous 4 hours i've been searching for any method to solve this problem

ok.. just bought a new dvd player (LG) and i've read a topic very similar to my problem, but unfortunately it didnt solve it which made me uncertain if that was correct, any way my dvd comes with a manual with 2 languages , [english , arabic]. but of course the subtitles languages listed does NOT contain arabic, so i selected 'other' and entered the code of the desired language and again same problem .. the encoding one!
what i've read was to copy the contents of the srt file (after opening it with microsoft word) and pasting it as a 'unicode' and overwriting it on itself -i thought that was the solution- however the subtitles were not displayed at all, not even as garbage (those weird symbols) as they were displayed b4, and when i press the 'subtitles' button it is set to OFF and no way 2 change it.

plzzzzzzzz if anyone knws how 2 solve that, coz am 95% sure that my dvd plays arabic subtitles, and i really dont want to get in thiz shit of attaching the subtitles the hard way (which i still know nothing about ...am a computer science student and i dnt think i have time 4 thiz )and that i think it would b invain... if that was my only choice plz notify me

thanx alot!