[Translators] Subtitles and Windows encoding

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Sat Aug 16 09:31:33 CEST 2014


Hello,

There has been a few errors lately, and discussions about the subtitles
encoding in vlc.git.

In VLC, on the message msgctxt "GetACP", that is from
modules/codec/subsdec.c,  you must use the correct encoding for your
language, the one that is usually found in SRT files.
Many times, that means CP1252, CP1250 or CP1251.

You should use the value that is now in vlc-2.2.git, and import it into
transifex.

I had to correct Bosnian, Slovene and Albanian, lately.
Please have a look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1251
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

1250 is for Central and Eastern Europe
1251 is for Cyrillic
1252 is for Western Europe
1253 is for Greek
1254 is for Turkish
1255 is for Hebrew
1256 is for Arabic, Persian and Urdu
1257 is for Baltic
1258 is for Vietnamese

If you have another question about this problem or you are unsure,
please ask.

Thanks a lot.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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