Fix garbled subtitle characters
Accents showing up as é or ć, or letters turned into question marks? The file uses an old encoding. Pick the right one and save it as UTF-8, which every player reads.
Positive shows subtitles later, negative sooner. Seconds, or a time like 00:01:05,300.
Find each line in your video and type when it is actually spoken.
Pick the output format below. Timing and text are kept.
| # | Before | After | Text |
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How it works
- Drop in the file. The encoding is detected automatically.
- If the preview still looks wrong, choose another encoding from the list until the text reads correctly.
- Download. The fixed file is UTF-8.
Questions
Which encoding should I pick?
Western European languages are usually Windows-1252. Polish, Czech, Croatian and Hungarian are usually Windows-1250. Russian and Bulgarian are Windows-1251, Greek is 1253, Turkish 1254.
Is my subtitle file uploaded anywhere?
No. Your browser reads and fixes the file on your own computer. Nothing is sent to a server, so private files are fine, and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.