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exebetche / vlsub

VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org
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VLC extension doesn't work well with file names with special characters #182

Open Maggie-123 opened 7 years ago

Maggie-123 commented 7 years ago

I have a file that ends with 'Folie à deux'. I found the subtitle, downloaded and then nothing. When I checked, the name had a strange character instead of 'à' so subtitle didn't match the file name and was not loaded.

exebetche commented 7 years ago

Yes, lua can't handle non ascii (english) character on windows in the video file or the folder path and vlc won't allow using external lua library to fix this problem. So you can either rename your file and parents folders, if necessary, ('Folie à deux' become 'Folie a deux') or use the "manual download" parameter in config to save the file manually.