Sunday, November 20, 2011

Even better solution - ICONV!

Well, that was fast. I figured a better way of dealing with this. Codepage 936 is Simplified Chinese and BIG5 is the traditional one.

iconv -f cp936 -t utf-8 chsimplified.srt >& simplified.srt
iconv -f cn-big5 -t utf-8 chtraditional.srt >& traditional.srt

These will convert the codepage subtitles to utf-8 which is something Ubuntu (and mplayer) can figure out much better. Now to back up these subs!

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