No recognize Romanian letters şţâă in subtitles external
Make sure your external SRT subtitle files are encoded with the UTF-8 text encoding.
Here is a great tool to convert your files: Subtitle Edit
It can even convert a whole drive’s worth of SRT files in “batch mode”.
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Hello Otto. I add you a sample where these kind of diacritics are not shown and file is UTF8
srt sample.zip (10.3 KB)
in this case is a synology server
There’s another older thread about this issue - you might want to jump on it: Plex Media Server doesn't recognize the language code for external subtitles
Looks like converting the file helps (there’s some notes in that thread about it) but also that this might be a regression…
Could you tell me if your screen shots are showing the correct letters or wrong ones? I am in no way familiar with Romanian, to be able to tell.
Your sample file is not UTF-8 encoded. It uses Western European Windows codepage 1252.
It also appears to be already converted in a wrong way. For instance it contains the letter þ quite frequently, which to my knowledge is only used in Icelandic nowadays.
If I manually change the codepage to Windows 1250, the letters change to what appears to be Romanian appearance (as mentioned, I don’t speak Romanian).
I converted your sample file to UTF-8.
srt sample.zip (10.1 KB)
Thanks Otto giving a view to this
This is ISO 1252 western european (wrong character = þ this is not romanian character)
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a dezvoltãrii minþii umane
pentru a vedea posibilitãþi infinite.
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a dezvoltãrii minþii umane
pentru a vedea posibilitãþi infinite.
This is the conversion to UTF8 (there are missing characters)
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00:14:36,748 → 00:14:39,381
am reu t s control experimentul
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a dezvolt ii min i umane
pentru a vedea posibilit i infinite.
This is the conversion to ISO 8859-16 (which is Romanian ISO standard) (this is the correct one ă,ș, ț are romanian characters)
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00:14:36,748 → 00:14:39,381
am reușit să controlăm experimentul.
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a dezvoltării minții umane
pentru a vedea posibilități infinite.
The correct one is ISO 8859-16
Did you do the conversion or did you use my file?
Which software did you use to read the file?
I use the text editor Synology have which also give the option to change the encoding
I just tried your modified attached srt and is working correctly!! And yes your above printscreen is showing the characters in the right way
Sorry to get confusing you but the editor of Synology this is what was showing me when I try to change the encoding to UTF8 with the original file (missing characters)
Now the question is there any way that this conversion from whatever encoding to UTF8 to be done automatically by Plex when is using/charging an external subtitle? Or manual conversion (file by file or I have to find a batch conversion tool for Synology/Linux) is the only way ?
showing correct after conversion
The problem I encountered is that regular software (like the SubtitleEdit app shown above) all interpret the file as using the Windows CP 1252, which is incorrect.
By using Notepad++, I was able to tell the software manually that it is in fact Windows CP 1250.
I then subsequently converted it to UTF-8.
I can only assume that computers which are set to use the Romanian language are employing some workaround to interpret these files differently.
And it is probably this workaround which apparently stopped working in Plex in recent versions.
If can you find a tool which converts text files from cp1250 to utf-8, you should be good.
Since the Synology uses Linux as its base, I wonder if the iconv command line app is available for it.
iconv -f CP1250 -t UTF-8 infile.txt -o outfile.txt
(source: iconv - Wikipedia)
I do not know what to say. The text editor from Synology is seeing it as UTF8 (with missing characters) which was confusing me in the begging. I will install also notepad++ in a windows environment to check the difference
And personally I use DSM7 in english as OS
LE
root@Eagle:~#
-ash: iconv: command not found
but as I am reading synology documentation uconv is available which is kind of similar
https://linux.die.net/man/1/uconv
root@Eagle:~# uconv -l
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ibm-33722_P12A_P12A-2009_U2 ibm-33722 ibm-5050 ibm-33722_VPUA IBM-eucJP
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ibm-954_P101-2007 ibm-954 x-IBM954 x-IBM954C
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ibm-5471_P100-2006 ibm-5471 Big5-HKSCS MS950_HKSCS hkbig5 big5-hkscs:unicode3.0 x-MS950-HKSCS
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ibm-1157_P100-1999 ibm-1157
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ibm-1147_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1147-s390
ibm-1148_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1148-s390
ibm-1149_P100-1997,swaplfnl ibm-1149-s390
ibm-1153_P100-1999,swaplfnl ibm-1153-s390
ibm-12712_P100-1998,swaplfnl ibm-12712-s390
ibm-16804_X110-1999,swaplfnl ibm-16804-s390
ebcdic-xml-us
I have to continue this topic. I played a bit with uconv
I took the original file Infinitum.Subject.Unknown.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-EVO.srt (which is iso-8859-1) and convert it to utf8 (new file called Infinitum.Subject.Unknown.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-EVO.rou.srt)
uconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -o Infinitum.Subject.Unknown.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-EVO.rou.srt Infinitum.Subject.Unknown.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-EVO.srt
Now in Linux the output of file - i is like this
In Plex with the new UTF8 file…shows wrong characters
In the end my point is that this should be manage inside Plex. A low or average user will no be able to deal with these conversions
adding the files
Downloads.zip (20.9 KB)
The file is not using iso-8859-1. It uses Windows CP 1250.
There is a difference between these. They are not synonymous.
could be. but this is the Linux output of file-i
and the file showed as UTF8 is having wrong characters in subtitle
You converted it from the other file, but by telling it that the source file is iso-8859-1, instead of Windows CP 1250.
Of course it shows wrong characters then.
yes you are right I did again the conversion using this time cp1250 to utf8 and is working
but what is strange is that linux see original file as iso-8859-1 and this is why initially I did the conversion iso-8859-1 to utf8
Anyway if you can add this mess to your development backlog will be great
Thanks!
This is the problem with old text files which only use a 8bit codepage. They often don’t contain a clear indication of which codepage was used to create them.
Hence why the iconv tool has to employ heuristics and dictionaries to make an educated guess about a text file’s natural language.
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