Subtitle Character Problem, advice needed

Hi, i've got a movie, it's a blu-ray rip in japanese, when i downloaded the correct srt english subtitle file and played it with the movie all the characters are strange, example:

ÒòΪսÕù¶ø¸ºÉ˵ĴóÅúÈËÀà×÷ΪÉú»¯»úеÈ˶ø¸´»î

I've had this before with another movie but the characters where all zeros or squares, is this because i havin't got all the correct langauges installed on my computer, it's proving hard to find any subs to match the movie, thanks

 

There is no way we can know what's wrong.
You haven't given us any real information.
Let's start with the programs you're using.

 

First open the SRT with notepad and see what it looks like, if it is indeed in English.

 

Yea i did check them in note pad and there the same weird characters, i've found some other srt files for the movie, just need to sync them and edit some text out.

Can i join split srt files with subedit, thanks for your replies by the way, sorry i couldn't responed sooner.

 

I don't know about Subedit, never used it, but SrtJoin can join your two srt parts and also Subtitle Workshop.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/661410

 

Thanks, i knew there was one but it's been a long time since i've used subtitles.