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I can't watch any movie with Arabic subtitles, I have tried to open the sub file and it displayed as all Chinese characters.

How can I get Arabic subtitles working?

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I advise you first to use VLC. To install vlc:

sudo apt-get install vlc

When you open VLC go to Tools → Preferences → Subtitles and OSD and then choose Arabic (windows-1256) in the default encoding.

Subtitles configuration dialogue

Now you have just to put the .srt translation file in the same directory of the video you want to watch

David Foerster
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