Unicode support in VLC?

[kitabata]

Here's a hopefully simple question that I haven't figured out yet by playing around with the options myself. When I play a file with chinese characters in the filename with VLC, the title shows up fine in the TitleBar, but when the filename flashes on the bottom-middle of the screen for a few seconds, chinese characters appear as boxes. Anyway to fix this?

[guns1inger]

Two possible things to try

1. Under Preferences -> interfaces (with Show All ticked), set the laguage to Chinese Traditional or Simplified Chinese

2. Under Preferences -> Video -> Subtitles/OSD -> Text Renderer choose a font that handles the characters.

The bar at the top uses the system font, which obviously has the correct characters, however the font VLC uses on screen does not, hence the boxes. You just need to find the right font.

[kitabata]

Got it, here is what I did specifically to solve my problem...

As guns1inger mentioned, the secret lied in specifying the correct font but for some reason, getting this done was like pulling teeth in VLC (at least for me). I didn't have to mess with any setting but the one under Preferences -> Text Renderer -> Font. Forget the browse button you see there, I'm not sure why, but it didn't work for me. You have to put the absolute path to the font you want to use. For me that was:

C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\simhei.ttf

Now filenames display just fine. Thanks for the help!