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Subtitles problem with OmegaT on Mac
Thread poster: euge bellini
euge bellini
euge bellini  Identity Verified
Uruguay
Local time: 23:18
Member (2009)
English to Spanish
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Oct 9, 2013

Hi all,

I am translating subtitles for the very first time, and for fun, using OmegaT running on my Mac. Once I finished and saved the target file, I opened the srt file to check it. I have all Spanish characters (accents, ñs, etc) wrong. I tried searching the web, but came up with nothing. Any thoughts? I guess this is a simple problem, but never happened to me.

Thanks in advance!
 
Fernando Toledo
Fernando Toledo  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 04:18
German to Spanish
Maybe Oct 9, 2013

Try to save the srt file as UTF-8


With a Editor, like Textwrangler



Saludos
 
Didier Briel
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France
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English to French
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Set the input and output character set correctly in OmegaT Oct 11, 2013

euge bellini wrote:
I am translating subtitles for the very first time, and for fun, using OmegaT running on my Mac. Once I finished and saved the target file, I opened the srt file to check it. I have all Spanish characters (accents, ñs, etc) wrong. I tried searching the web, but came up with nothing. Any thoughts? I guess this is a simple problem, but never happened to me.

By default, the SubRip filter is set to "automatic", which means it supposes the file you translate uses the same character set as your operating system, which isn't always true.

Make sure your source document is in UTF-8.
In OmegaT, go to Options > File Filters > SubRip Subtitles >Edit... and change the Source File Encoding and the Target File Encoding from to UTF-8.

Didier
 


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