Persian/Farsi videos subtitle problem?

I have problem with subtitle in Persian/Farsi using all good video players.

I have tested all reading options formats (all different area and language to read), but all did not work. I can type Farsi, but it can not show subtitle to Farsi.

Solution 1:

If you have VLC may be I can help you.

Go to VLC:

1. Click Tools and next Preferences
2. Click Subtitle & OSD
3. In section Subtitle Language and Default encoding
4. Select Arabic (Windows-1256)
5. In section font select the Tahoma font

Solution 2:

This is very simple using VLC :

1. Go to Edit Menu
2. Click on Preferences
3. Change encoding to Arabic(Windows-1256)
4. Change the Font to a Persian Font (I prefer B Nazanin)

Enjoy!

Solution 3:

This is a Python3 code for converting Persian/Farsi subtitles into the ones with UTF-8 encoding.

def correctSubtitleEncoding(filename, newFilename, encoding='windows-1256'):
    with open(filename, 'r', encoding=encoding) as fr:
        with open(newFilename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fw:
            for line in fr:
                fw.write(line[:-1]+'\r\n')