VLC HowTo/Select a unicode font

This page describes how to select a Unicode font.

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This could be necessary to watch e.g. Chinese subtitles.

Go to Tools -> Preferences (set Show Settings to All) and Video -> Subtitles/OSD.

Then change the Text Rendering Module from Default to Freetype2 font renderer.

After that go to Video -> Subtitles/OSD -> Text renderer and choose Unicode font (like Arial) to Font.

Remember to press Save to save VLC settings and restart VLC after that to make sure changes are enabled.

This page is part of the informal VLC Support Guide.

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