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I know, most of subtitles are in win-1250. But I've just downloaded 2 subtitles, which encoding I can just guess ... it's not UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 (czech subtitles - http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitl ... st-fall-cs, http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitl ... st-fall-cs)

Can you add some rutine which can just show the encoding (if is it possible)?

I will try to do that and show it online. maybe Iconv or som PHP function can come to play.

Hello everybody,

maybe somebody of readers know, how to properly detect encoding of subtitle file in PHP (or Perl - I did not search for it yet, but PHP preffered). I tried a lot, but I don't know how to do that. mb_detect_encoding is not working as I expect.

Thanks for any help.

Hello everybody,

maybe somebody of readers know, how to properly detect encoding of subtitle file in PHP (or Perl - I did not search for it yet, but PHP preffered). I tried a lot, but I don't know how to do that. mb_detect_encoding is not working as I expect.

Thanks for any help.

You can't, solution that works with good efficacy dosn't exist.
Try web browser charset autodetection functionality - simply drag and drop subtitles with txt extension, you will see how hopeless it is.

I think, the best solution is that you detect language of subtitles and simply assume that they are encoded using windows charset for that language.
I have not seen polish subtitles encoded with ISO charset used by linux jet, so I thing in other languages is the same - one standard per language.

Subtitles which ivanhoe link put to, are encoded in windows 1250 but they are simply damaged - someone wrogngly set encoding in windows or editor or .. and guess what happened

Cougar,

I know it is quite a problem, I expect there will be some slight errors, but thats ok.

Anyway, I found some regexes for that:
http://lachy.id.au/dev/2005/11/encoding ... ons-source

but it iseems I will give up on this issue...

Last chance is calling some external program for that. (linux/freebsd)

hey, the subtitles are mismatching with the audio ongoing in the movie. what to do? how to know which r the perfect subtitles for the print i m having?