Unicode in SSA

[Yayita]

Sorry for polluting your board with my newbie question. :rolleyes:

I want to use unicode characters in SSA. I only want SSA because it is the format Maestro uses and I use it to render bmps.

I've searched a lot, but have a partial answer. I know {\fe } changes the character encoding, but what are the numbers? is any unicode?

For example, I want the musical note, it is unicode 266A , but how do I write in the script so that ssa knows its a unicode character.

Thanks for your help.

[Phanton_13]

you can edit it with notepad and save as unicode or try the ssa clone ChronoSub(Medusa) (http://sourceforge.net/projects/medusa), it has native unicode suport.

[Liisachan]

MaestroSBT does not support Unicode, so you cannot make image subs converted from SSA in Unicode with it. You can select one and only one "Code Page" (aka "Script") in MaestroSBT for a "style" defined in SSA, like "Western Europe" "Korean" etc. and your SSA cannot be in Unicode (UTF-8/16) if you want to use Maestro.

afaik {\fe} is not needed for Maestro, because it has the global setting for the Code Page, but it might work (I doubt it tho)
here goes \fe params for some of mojor languages:

Japanese 128
Korean 129
Chinese (Simplified) 134
Chinese (Traditional) 136
Russian etc 204
Thai 222
Central European langauges 238

For instance...

You can use {\fe128\fnMS UI Gothic}Japanese{\fe0\fnVerdana} and English.

edit:

btw the number \fe takes is equal to the number you would type here (238, in this sample):
Style: StyleName,...,30,30,30,0,238

edit2:

The code page for Japanese (Shift_JIS) includes U+266A ♪
In the code page for English, it should look like
{\fe128}ô
or 0x81 + 0xf4; I'm not sure if Maestro can understand it but you can give it a try.