Subtitle character “ñ” displays as � on Windows (and other foreign characters)

[swagrisegaming]

Stremio Platform

Windows

Describe the bug

While watching The Sopranos, Season 5 Episode 11, using English subtitles from OpenSubtitles, the character “ñ” was displayed as the Unicode replacement character “�”. For example, “señor” appeared as “se�or”.

This did not appear to happen with the normal “English Embedded” subtitles, which displayed the character correctly.

To Reproduce

1. Open The Sopranos, Season 5 Episode 11.
2. Select the English subtitles from OpenSubtitles.
3. Go to 27:31 in the episode.
4. Observe that “señor” is displayed as “se�or”.
5. Switch to the “English Embedded” subtitles and observe that the character displays correctly.

Expected behavior

Subtitles should correctly display accented characters. The word should appear as “señor”, not “se�or”.

Screenshots

App Version

6.0.1-beta.09

Device Info

Desktop PC — Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2070 SUPER, 32 GB RAM

OS Version

Windows 10

Player Info

No response

Browser Info

No response

Logs

Notes

none, im not a coder or anything so ill let you guys handle it

[kKaskak]

hello can you send your shell version and server version you are using so i can better try to reproduce your issue?

[kKaskak]

Could you also share the exact subtitle URL? Open the subtitle menu, right-click the entry that shows se�or, choose Copy subtitle URL, and paste it here. That will let us test the same file.