French subs not showing correctly (Russian characters?!)

[fastersound]

Hi, I just downloaded the French subtitles for the 1st series of The Office(uk) but 'à' 'ê' 'ç' 'ñ' etc are all showing up as 'Ѱ' 'И' 'Л' 'Ѳ' etc...

any idea's how to solve this problem? can't find the french subtitles anywhere else than here.

im using VLC.

thank you!

[giannid]

The subtitles look fine to me. It must be a problem with your computer not recognising these accented letters. I suppose you're computer's default language is Russian or Eastern European. Perhaps you should try to install Latin fonts.

[fastersound]

thanks for that..ive had a look at all of the language options and ticked any french ones that werent selected, and unchecked any russian/cyrillic that were. rebooted etc..but still the same thing happens in both VLC and WMP...

[giannid]

I think it's more of a WINDOWS problem. Does it do the same thing with other French subtitles?

[fastersound]

yeh im pretty sure it is too..cos i've just checked with another film and the same thing happens..grr!

[giannid]

Hey are you French? Will you give a listen to this short audio clip, and tell me what he says, in French?
http://www.zshare.net/audio/515648171e5021f9/

Thanks

[fastersound]

i'm not sorry..its for a friend who is visiting and likes stuff like the office but has never seen it..

[giannid]

I don't know if this will work, but you might try this if you are using WINDOWS:

START => CONTROL PANEL => REGIONAL & LANGUAGE OPTIONS => LANGUAGES

There should be a couple of options for "Additonal Language Support".

Maybe if you have the option for western European (Latin 1) fonts, you could try to install them by ticking one of the boxes.

I have never tried to do this, so I am not sure what else is involved.

Good Luck.

[fastersound]

thank you! there was one latin box i hadn't ticked..all seems to be in order now thanks again!

[giannid]

That was simple.

Glad to help.