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Subtitle encoding detection fail

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Hello,

subliminal converting subtitles to UTF-8 and for some players not a good idea. For example XBMC using user interface language for determine subtitles language. In my case my XBMC is Turkish and my subtitles downloaded from subliminal showing wrong characters.

Debug of subliminal: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=FDKCxZzw

I download same subtitle. This is compare of subliminal vs. opensubtitles web download:

$ charade downloaded_by_subliminal.srt downloaded_from_opensubtitles_website.srt 
downloaded_by_subliminal.srt: utf-8 with confidence 0.99
downloaded_from_opensubtitles_website.srt: ISO-8859-2 with confidence 0.874910791543
$

I am going to paste sneak peek of this two subtitles. You can see differences: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=5bE7YZJJ

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Created 10 years ago
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Diaoulcommented, Oct 20, 2015

Subliminal doesn’t use any encoding detection by default. It is only triggered when using the -e argument of the CLI.

In the previous versions, subliminal used the detected encoding to decode the subtitle and write it on the filesystem using utf-8. Due to many bug reports without the required information to make the detection algorightm better I decided to deactivate it by default and leave encoding detection to media players.

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Diaoulcommented, Oct 22, 2015

SickRage uses a custom version of subliminal, any issue related to SickRage must be reported there.

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