is it possible that issue is with the OS or i need to setup something some localization in plex server settings?
Sadly not always 
Either that, or use SRT2UTF-8
I took the subtitle file from above and simply converted it to UTF-8 (with BOM).
(originally, it was using a national 8-bit Windows encoding).
For Plex, you will always need to use UTF-8, which is nowadays supported practically everywhere.
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You can use the above mentioned Plex plugin, or you can use a multitude of other ways to change the text encoding.
SRT files are simply text files, which follow a certain, very simple structure. So you can practically use any software which can load simple text files and supports conversion of text encoding. Even the simplistic notepad.exe on Windows 10 can do this now.
Since I check every subtitle file before adding it to my server, I use Subtitle Edit to do the conversion.
It also supports a “batch mode”, where it processes a whole folder (and its subfolders) at once.
so there is no plugin for a plex that can do all that hassle on background … ie download subt file, conver it etc… so i dont need go thru that hassle as 15y ago with kodi …
Huh…
The build in’s works, and the one I pointed towards, can do the conversion automatically
To my knowledge, SubZero is supposed to do just that.
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frankly no clue how to install it … as notihing regarding installation is here …
there is something : https://github.com/ukdtom/SRT2UTF-8.bundle/wiki/Installation
even why such a trivia functionality is not natively supported by plex… wondering.
can i somehow check via plex gui what plugins are loaded?
i installed plugin - no clue if its loaded? - but still subtitles broken…
no clue what Agents have to set-up …
Personal media
Plex movie (legacy)
movie database?
argh … pain. now got why ppl rather buy netflix…
section Movies> i set Scanner: Plex movie scanner
agent: The movie database
in server config: Agent section
subtitles still broken.. apparently nothing was encoded to utf8 …
all the time i Select Srt2utf8 … when i click on other section for example Personal Media … it got unselected from The Movie database… anotrher bug?
Huh. I didn’t actually check since it worked for me. but Ansi files should work too, since it’s still 8-bit. Can you provide a screenshow of the bad rendering? Since it worked for me, could be something local
i dont know … its all broken apparently.
why i cant select that broken plugin as part of the Movie database? seems plex is just one big piece of broken code.
jesus christ wwhat a ■■■■ code …
now all the Czech subtitles disappear … thats unbelievable.
can anyone advice what a hell is going on here? how to setup that broken code properly?
