My previous post The Square in Subtitle of VLC has documented how to set the VLC to use unicode for subtitles. However, even so sometimes there are one or two question marks at the end of each subtitle lines.
For example, when opening the subtitle files, the characters can be read without difficulties. The subtitle lines appear to be chopped at the middle and show with one of two question marks instead. After investigation, when opening the subtitle file using PSPad, the file format (as shown at the status bar) is UTF-16 LE. This is the root cause. For VLC, the subtitle file is better to be in UTF-8 format. So, simply convert the UTF-16 LE format file into a UTF-8 format file with the same name. Then, VLC can display the subtitle correctly.
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