HELP: garbled subtitles file.. incorrect unicode?

[dhruba.bandopadhyay]

Does anyone know about foreign characters being read incorrectly? I have a video & subtitles srt file. The subtitles file is suppose to be in Asian characters, but when I open the srt file in WordPad/NotePad, all the text is garbled. I opened up a French srt file and can recognize French words perfectly. I have another Asian srt file which displays the Asian characters properly. But sometimes the Asian srt file is garbled.

Was the saving of the srt file incorrect? Is it reversible?

[BigCondor]

Try to open it in Word and select the proper language to see if the file is properly displayed. Or you can open it with Subtitle Workshop and also select the proper language.

[smiller667]

Alternatively, post a link to a few dozen lines of the subtitle file in question.