Persian/Farsi videos subtitle problem?

If you have VLC may be I can help you.

Go to VLC:

1. Click Tools and next Preferences
2. Click Subtitle & OSD
3. In section Subtitle Language and Default encoding
4. Select Arabic (Windows-1256)
5. In section font select the Tahoma font

Other way you may change subtites files encoding to UTF-8

I've experienced this before, and I found it's because of subtitles' font, use Subtitle Editor to edit your subtitle's font.

You can get Subtitle Editor two ways, Download from its house http://home.gna.org/subtitleeditor/ or via PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subtitleeditor

• Right click on subtitle → open with → Subtitle Editor
• Then Tools → Style Editor, and there you can change your subtitle's font.

This is very simple using VLC :

1. Go to Edit Menu
2. Click on Preferences
3. Change encoding to Arabic(Windows-1256)
4. Change the Font to a Persian Font (I prefer B Nazanin)

Enjoy!