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Subtitles show garbled characters

Older subtitle files use local encodings (EUC-KR, Shift-JIS, GBK). Players that assume UTF-8 show garbage.

Open the playerFree Windows app · v0.1.45

Updated 2026-11-11

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    PlayAnyVideo detects the encoding automatically when you load the subtitle.

  2. 2

    Re-save the file as UTF-8 if another program still shows garbage.

  3. 3

    Open the PlayAnyVideo player in your browser — nothing to install — and drop the file in. Files never leave your device.

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