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I can't watch any movie with Arabic subtitles, I have tried to open the sub file and it displayed as all Chinese characters.

How can I get Arabic subtitles working?

Eliah Kagan
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user234944
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    What program are you using to play movies? Is it Totem? VLC? Have you tried other players? I recommend editing your question to provide this information. (You can also take a look at the edit I made and, if you like, edit further as necessary in case it doesn't fully describe the problem.) – Eliah Kagan Jan 13 '14 at 10:54
  • it's not relevant to Ubuntu, because the subtitle is read by the video player – phuclv Jul 08 '18 at 02:11

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I advise you first to use VLC. To install vlc:

sudo apt-get install vlc

When you open VLC go to Tools → Preferences → Subtitles and OSD and then choose Arabic (windows-1256) in the default encoding.

Subtitles configuration dialogue

Now you have just to put the .srt translation file in the same directory of the video you want to watch

David Foerster
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