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encAmateur
3rd May 2011, 10:35
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding converting a subtitle in .txt format to .srt
When I try to load it into Subtitle Workshop it doesn't recognize the format. The subtitle which I have looks like this:

882 4 1234
NORMAL
00:00:00.00



00:00:00.00
3.7.2009 14:43:25
3131 3494
1 0 0 0 0 0

ISTRAĻITELJ
4500 4681
1 0 0 0 0 0

Nadzor ukljuźen
5988 6412
1 0 0 0 0 0
Prema drami
Anthonyja Shaffera
11288 11856
1 0 0 0 0 0
Da? -Andrew Wyke?
-Tako je. -Ja sam Milo Tindle.
11919 12125
1 0 0 0 0 0

O, da! Dobro.
12581 12738
1 0 0 0 0 0

Drago mi je.
12950 13181
1 0 0 0 0 0

Any ideas what I should do? Thank you all in advance!
Nikse555
3rd May 2011, 17:55
You could try this one: http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit.zip (alpha of SE 3.2 - exe only)
encAmateur
4th May 2011, 08:45
Thanks a million for the reply Nikse, that worked a treat. One problem I'm still having however is that Subedit is not recognising special characters such as č, š and đ. Is there any particular setting I need to be aware of regarding these?
Nikse555
4th May 2011, 09:06
You can use File -> Import subtitle with manual chosen encoding
or try Options -> Settings -> General: Auto-detect ANSI decoding - ON
encAmateur
4th May 2011, 09:15
Nikse, you're a legend. That worked and thanks so much...
encAmateur
5th May 2011, 13:09
Nikse, I'm having another problem which I didn't notice immediately.. the thing is that I can open these .txt subtitle files which I have, but when I try saving them as a .srt file, the special characters such as č, š and đ are not showing in the .srt, only some strange symbols instead of these characters. If you have any ideas what I'm doing wrong or what I should do I would be most grateful if you could let me know. Thanks again for everything!
Nikse555
5th May 2011, 19:46
SE can save text formats (like .srt) using several different encodings - default file encoding is UTF8 which can be changed in menu toolbar.
On WinXp you need to use a unicode font to display unicode... like Times New Roman. Vista and Windows7 are much better than xp here, as all fonts are unicode :)
encAmateur
6th May 2011, 09:31
Thank you so much, I got it working now! :)