[MPlayer-users] unicode subtitles

[Georgi Georgiev]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:57:53PM +0200, Artur Zaprzala wrote:
> The subtitle encoding issue seems a bit confusing, so I'll try to 
> summarize it here.
> 
> There are 2 approaches:
> 
> 1. (preferred) You can generate Unicode subtitles with:
> 	subfont --unicode <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> 	subfont --unicode <path to custom encoding file> ...
> 	(this custom encoding file could list all iso-8859-* characters to 
> 	create single font file for common encodings)
> 
> and then run mplayer this way (-subcp and -utf8 expect Unicode font!):
> 	mplayer -subcp <any encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> 	mplayer -utf8 ...
> 
> 2. (current) Generate subtitles for some specific encoding with:
> 	subfont <signle-byte encoding known by iconv> ...
> or
> 	subfont <path to custom signle-byte or EUC encoding file> ...
> 
> and then run mplayer without any encoding options for signle-byte 
> encodings, or with -unicode option for EUC (and the like) encodings 
> (which is only partially implemented in mplayer).

This was quite useful. Too bad it was not documented anywhere. Does anyone intend to put this in the docs? 

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