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Captions showing letters with accents as '?'
I'm deploying a video to a dozen different countries, so I have a dozen different VTT files so viewers can select the language they want when they're watching the video. However, all letters with ac...
It is important after translating the transcript file to save the file as UTF-8 encoded.
I can confirm that special characters DO INDEED WORK as long as the file is encoded UTF-8, which can be done from the top menu of Notepad++, by choosing Encoding > Convert to UTF-8!
Hey! I don't have Notepad ++ and I am having the same problem. I am doing my VTT files with notepad windows. Is there another way to fix this?
Mariel Vargas I don't know if you solved this already, but you can save them as UTF-8 encoded straight from normal Notepad. Just choose "Save as" and beneath the file type, you can choose which encoding you want to save it as.
I did this for all my subtitles and it works well!