I’m trying to display closed captioning on the movie "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks. I went to a website that has subtitles for the movie in .srt
format and downloaded them. I added them to VLC media player (64-bit) on Windows 7.
I also changed some settings in VLC while the movie is playing:
- I added the captions file (
.srt
)Subtitle->Add Subtitle File...
Tools->Preferences
- In the
Simple Preferences
dialog I clickedSubtitles / OSD
- From the
Default Encoding
drop down I selectedArabic (Windows-1256)
- Clicked
OK
The sub-titles displayed somewhat correctly, but not entirely; a few of the characters were missing in the subtitles.
So I downloaded Notepad++ and opened the .srt
file containing the Arabic subtitles.
To get that file to display correctly, from the menu I had to click Encoding -> Charactersets -> Arabic-> Windows-1256
In Notepad++ it appears to display all of the characters correctly. The only setting I can think of that might need to be changed here is back in VLC, in the Subtitles / OSD
settings; and that is the font
.
So my question is, what font does Notepad++ use to display the Arabic character set Arabic (Windows-1256)
?
I found a font setting that said it the font was Courier New
, but upon setting that same setting to this font in VLC the problem with some of the characters not displaying is still occurring.