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    How do I change default windows encode mode?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by lvnatic, Oct 22, 2010.

  1. lvnatic

    lvnatic Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm at my cousin's computer now and trying to watch a movie together. But the subtitles don't show the proper characters, some of the letters are replaced with some weird characters and I can hardly understand anything. I went into Control Panel at regional settings, Languages tab and there I saw all the encode modes she has. It has windows-1250 and most of the other similar encodings marked, but I can't find UTF-8. Problem is, that the windows is also in Russian and I can't understand a thing; most of the things I've done were with my cousin's help. Does anybody know how to install/change the encoding mode so that I can see european/romanian characters properly on movie subtitles? When I installed BS Player, it automaticlly installed a lot of missing codecs but still no result.

    Looking forward for replies, thanks.

    LE: A guide with images would be highly apreciatted as I wouldn't be able to do anything in this stupid Russian OS. Running Windows XP.
     
    lvnatic, Oct 22, 2010
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    perrin_aybara, Oct 25, 2010
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