[MPlayer-users] Problem with accents in subtitles

[Paul Smith]

On 4/13/06, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> > When I play a movie with subtitles in a srt file, the accented
> > characters (not all) are not shown properly. What can I do to solve
> > the problem? I am using
> >
> > font="Comic Sans MS"
> > ffactor=0.8
> > fontconfig=on
> > subfont-blur=2
> > subfont-osd-scale=3
> > subfont-outline=2
> > subfont-text-scale=4
> >
> > The encoding of the srt file is iso-8859-1.
>
> RTFM and set subcp accordingly.

Thanks, Dominik. I just added the following line to my config file:

subcp=ISO-8859-1

and the problem became solved.

Paul