Vobsub: Strange characters in French / Spanish subtitles

[Swan]

I am having some problems with French subtitles, which
I have ripped from the DVD. I have done exactly as in Doom9's VobSub guide, not changing any parameters (placement or color, etc).
The ripping went fine and the subs show at the correct time when I play the avi (DivX). But strange characters appear from time to time, for example, the French letter é (an e with an accent) looks like a captialized Ç. And the word ou (where) becomes o". It looks equally weird when I play the DVD and turn on the original subtitles there.

What can be the cause of this phenomena and what can I do about it?
Is it because of bad subtitling on the DVD or because I am using an English version of Windows? The Spanish subs seem A-OK and there are lots of "non-english" characters in it, that displays just fine, so I suspect it's not Windows-language-related.

Regards

/Swan

[gabest]

DVD subtitles are pictures, you can only change them after OCRing into text.

[Swan]

Thank you, Gabest.
Does this mean that the French subs are badly done by the DVD author?
Is this common?

[gabest]

- yes
- don't know, I'm not interested in french subtitles :p

[buddy-jesus]

maybe you would like to give subrip a try,...
it makes subpictures to text via OCR. If it finds suspect caracters it will ask you which letters it shall use for.
so in VD you will put the subtiteles in with Avery Lees subtitler, works quite good in my opinion.

greetings buddy_jesus ø_Ø

[Swan]

Originally posted by buddy-jesus
maybe you would like to give subrip a try,...
it makes subpictures to text via OCR. If it finds suspect caracters it will ask you which letters it shall use for.
greetings buddy_jesus ø_Ø

Thank you, Buddy Jesus. If I was better at French, I would. I don't think I'd be capable of "telling" subrip what is what. :-)
I know a little French, but not enough. Should I come across a bad English subtitle, I know what to try now, though.

/SWan