SRT small "l" is capital "I"

[joe55]

"I don't feeI weII."
"She's no Ionger"

I downloaded these subs from somewhere else, but I had this problem a few days ago. All the small letter "l" get replaced by capital "I" ..when I play the movie back though they are all correct and show the smaller case "l" like it should be, why is this happening?

Thanks.

[~bT~]

Open the srt file with notepad.
Click Edit then Replace.
In the first box, Type in capital I, second box type in small l (L) then tick match case and finally click on replace all. Then save it once finished.

[joe55]

Yeah I know that, but then sentences starting with "I" get messed up. I was looking for an explaination why they are like that? But when playing the actual movie with the subs even though their screwed up it shows it correctly??

[check]

the subs were OCRed from a DVD where the font for I and l is the same - hence the program can not distinguish between them.

[joe55]

Ahh, so since these subtitles playback and look fine, I don't have to change the letters or anything correct? I can just leave it? Thanks.

[check]

As long as you use a font that keeps the letters the same you will be fine.

[Didée]

Tools like SubRip & Co. usually have a "spelling correction" option.

[slk001]

There's also a "spell checker". Using an OCR'ed source sometimes require a run through a checker.

[TheDib]

The only way to fix this with perfection is after spell-checking, to manually peruse the whole SRT file and replace all lowercase l's with capital I's when necessary. Or just make sure that you use a non-serifed font for viewing. There's no way to overcome this easily since capital I and lowercase l are identical in the font they're usually presented.

I just make sure to always tell SubRip that capital I's are lowercase l's... it looks better in Notepad than the other way around.

Why the geniuses at the DVD Consortium (or whatever it was called) chose to use bitmapped subtitles instead of a simple text-based solution (along with placement instructions) is beyond me. It requires 50 times as much storage space on the DVD, and although mostly negligible, that space would be put to better use as video. Besides, chances are that studios create the subtitles in a text-editor to begin with. The current format forces them to take the extra step of converting them to bitmap format. Both consumers and producers lose... inexcusable in all regards that I can think of.

I just had to get that off my chest.

[anonymez]

there is an option in subrip specifically for this problem. when done ripping open up post ocr spelling correction (or something like that, from memory) :)

[steelman]

there is an option in subrip specifically for this problem. when done ripping open up post ocr spelling correction (or something like that, from memory) :)

It can be also used for subs downloaded from internet. Simply open subrip, open subititles, run post OCR correction and save subtitles. Work fine for me (somethimes).

[TheDib]

Okay then. I apologize to the authors of SubRip, and thank them for their provision of this function. However, my rant against the DVD subtitle format stands.