Limitations of Unicode .srt files ?

[iparout]

Hi.

I just created a subtitle .srt file for a movie, however there are some French characters in there (i.e. é , à) which can only be saved in the .srt file if I change its format from ANSI to Unicode. I did so and the characters display properly with DirectVobSub, however I would like to know what are the drawbacks of having an .srt file in Unicode format... I know that Subrip won't open such a file because it's unsupported, however I don't care about that... I would just like to know if there are any other drawbacks before I burn the .srt file to the CD together with the movie...

Thanks.

[Tri]

It probably will not work on win9xME.

[iparout]

Originally posted by Tri
It probably will not work on win9xME.

I can cope with that... No serious problem there. Any others ?

[gabest]

They should if the OS supports the language and have the needed font set. TextOutW is one of the few unicode api calls implemented on win9x.

[iparout]

I get it.. But even if it's not supported, I wouldn't care much cause I never plan to use these OS. Any other drawbacks perhaps ?

[Liisachan]

Originally posted by iparout
Any other drawbacks perhaps ?
Well, if you're interested in OGM...

At this moment, you cannot use SRT in UTF-16 in OGM.
You can use SRT in UTF-8 w OggDS 0.9.9.6 but not w 0.9.9.5, and 0.9.9.6 is buggy. On the other hand, SRT in Non-Unicode works decently muxed in OGM. In short, if you are going to mux your SRT into OGM, don't use Unicode.

If you are not interested in OGM, just don't worry ^^;