Hello, today I wanted to play movie “Countdown (2019)” with subtitles. I had a problems with slovak diacritics letters like š č ť etc. Ie word “kočky” shows me as “koky”. I tried to play movie in VLC, worked perfect. Can you tell me what is bad? For future movies I will play… Here is .srt file …

It could be the font chosen by the text renderer doesn’t have those specific letters/type-faces. This isn’t a problem on your end but would maybe be a problem on Plex’s end. What you could try is getting aegisub, put the subtitles in there, select a font that has those characters that is also on y…

The file is using Windows ANSI text encoding. Convert that to UTF-8 to be compatible to all kinds of Plex clients. Not only those running Windows. Try this version. I simply opened it in Subtitle Edit and changed the encoding. Countdown (2019).cze.srt.zip (25.9 KB)

@OttoKerner I tried it, same result. Maybe I must run analyze in plex or something?

Which Plex client are we talking about? Maybe follow @JasonNalley 's suggestion as well.

@OttoKerner all clients. Samsung TV, mobike client, apple tv client

If the video file has a subtitle track embedded in the file, I think Plex will automatically select that version. It would also remember the last version you selected (the ANSI version) if that file is still available. You would have to manually select the new version encoded in UTF-8. Subtitles e…

Maybe this thread will help? [image] Romanian subtitles with diacritics are not ok Desktop Players Server Version#: 1.18.3.2156 Player Version#: 3.104.2 I tried many versions of PLEX Media Player for Desktop but none of them play subtitles correctly. In web…

Hi, I’ve just installed Plex ( Debian 4.19.67, Plex 1.18.5.2309) having exactly the same issue. UTF8 subtitles or those downloaded from opensubtitles.org in Czech language. Letters with diacritics are not shown : Word “rybník” is displayed as “rybnk” etc. Playing in web client.

Then try my srt2utf-8 solution as I suggested

Hi dane22, thanks you for your response. Subtitles from opensubtitles.org are already in UTF-8. Please can you clarify how exactly this plugin can help me? I believe the problem you described in Romanian subtitles thread is a little different. I want to be able to use opensubtitles.org as a source f…

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