Character coding problem on W7 Pro x64

cipri92 · 04 May 2013

First of all, I'm a Romanian and that's part of the reason I opened this thread. I used to run x86 on my notebook and after I've downloaded a movie, the sub was perfect with the correct characters (ă, ș, ț), aka Unicode. After I chenged to x64, the characters went crazy. I mean, for the SAME movie, instead of Unicode, Notepad changes them without any notification to ASCII. What's wrong?

Neutron16 · 04 May 2013

Please follow this tutorial and change language for non-unicode programs to Romanian. In that language window you could also try changing other parameters to Romanian.

If this won't work, VLC media player can force enconding for subtitles while playing a movie. In VLC - Tool - Preferences - Subtitles&OSD - Default encoding. For Romanian you most likely would have to choose Eastern European (Latin 2).