Problem: I had .srt file in Arabic language made in Subtitle Workshop 6.0 which after trying to convert to Adobe Encore subtitles (.txt) had bad encoding and impossible to convert to normal view. And I needed to import it to Adobe Encore to use as an language option. Encoding in Subtitle Workshop was Arabic. By the way, in Subtitle Workshop 2 the text wasn't shown properly.
Reason: Subtitle Workshop usually doesn't use proper encoding when saves files (not Unicode which is usually required to show all the letters properly).
Soluion: To convert subtitles to Unicode I usually use Subtitle Edit which opens and saves subtitles in different formats. There is a possibility to choose encoding.
In this particular case when I opened my .srt file or .txt file with subtitles in Arabic, it showed me some scribbles.
To avoid this problem I opened subtitles via File => Import subtitle with manual chosen encoding...
and then choose encoding Arabic. Then File => Save as - choose format you need (for Adobe Encore I used Adobe Encore w.line .txt). It should import to Encore without any problem!
P.S. Sometimes if the problem still there it's better to change font to Arial Unicode or Adobe Arabic.
Reason: Subtitle Workshop usually doesn't use proper encoding when saves files (not Unicode which is usually required to show all the letters properly).
Soluion: To convert subtitles to Unicode I usually use Subtitle Edit which opens and saves subtitles in different formats. There is a possibility to choose encoding.
In this particular case when I opened my .srt file or .txt file with subtitles in Arabic, it showed me some scribbles.
To avoid this problem I opened subtitles via File => Import subtitle with manual chosen encoding...
and then choose encoding Arabic. Then File => Save as - choose format you need (for Adobe Encore I used Adobe Encore w.line .txt). It should import to Encore without any problem!
P.S. Sometimes if the problem still there it's better to change font to Arial Unicode or Adobe Arabic.
