Selectable subtitles files charset

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Selectable subtitles files charset #244

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a ISO 8859-1 (or Latin1) encoded subtitle file
2. Activate subtitles

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect to see readable symbols for the charset, instead I see the the 
subtitles as if they had been encoded in Mac Roman.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by german...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2011 at 1:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

I found the "select charset" in the preferences... however, It'd be useful to 
have some autodetection algorithm in place. UTF and unicode can be detected 
fairly easy, and Mac Roman vs Latin1 vs ASCII code pages could be detected 
based in the "usable" characters for each charset and making sure the active 
file encoding is only using those usable characters, otherwise try another 
charset.

Original comment by german...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2011 at 1:19