Why does my VLC window show weird fonts?

Question

So, I have Japanese language installed on Ubuntu (even though it's not activated so I assume I have the fonts). When I play a file which is named "百物語の幽霊.mp3", it opens VLC but the window title is messed up (see screenshot).

Answer 1

Tools >> Preference

Set Subtitle Language >> Default Encoding to

System codeset or Universal (UTF-8)

In my case, VLC 2.2.2 it works fine.

Best Regards,