2009-03-10

Language issue

Before Unicode there were code pages and fonts like Arial or Times New Roman reflected this like scripts as Arabic, Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Vietnamese or Western. I usually have to switch to Central European script in video players in order to see the subtitle in my native language, Romanian. I have recently found out that BSPlayer and JetAudio are unable to make that switch and the subtitle looks awful in Western script. In fact the diacritics are shown wrong, the rest of text is ok. I have found two solutions to this: To use a font that has only one script (the Central European) or to make some changes in Windows settings to sort this thing out.
First solution for me is to use a font called JetRomanian (see it in the BOX).
Second solution is to follow these steps in Windows XP:
  1. Click Start, then go to Control Panel.
  2. From there choose Regional and Language Options.
  3. Then go to the Advanced tab and choose Romanian under the long label "Select a language to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs you want to use:"

That's it. Now I can watch the subtitle as they should be displayed.

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