[Electric_zax]

Recently I started translating subtitles for animes (from English) into Bulgarian and I learned a lot of things about it. How to extract the English subs from an mkv file, how to add fonts that I want to, etc. But there's one thing I have problems with and I can't seem to find an answer to it.

What do I have to do to be able to have the kanji in my .ass file before I use it to make the mkv file? For example - I take the English subs and they look fine. I see the latin and kanji symbols, no problem. But when I'm done with the translation and save the file all the kanji turns into a black squares or question marks.

I use MS Word / Wordpad / Notepad to edit the .ass file and I tried some other programs but I don't remember which. Maybe I'm just out of luck to come upon these that doesn't work or I'm not doing something correctly... I'm using Windows XP and I have installed extra languages so I can write in Japanese.

[Sonrange]

You should really use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

It's like the best possible subtitle editing software for FREE.

[DTryPleX]

You need to use UNICODE fonts to display the Kanji lines. The fonts will have the regular name like: Poopyfont and the UNICODE line will be added like Poopyfont Unicode. As long as you stick to those fonts, the Kanji will display just fine.

[dreamer2908]

Any (or most) fonts with name starting with "@" like "@DFKai-SB" can be used to display Kanji in vertical (for ex, kara)
Basic fonts like "Arial" support Kanji too.

[Electric_zax]

Hey guys. Thanks a lot! That was very valuable info and I managed to make my first subs with karaoke. But I noticed that if the subs are not "hardcore" (I think that was the term) the karaoke doesn't display properly. At least with me on 3 different PCs. I use K-lite full codec pack 7.X (3 different versions as I don't like to update without being necessary).

The karaoke was previously made in the English subs like this:

Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.58,0:21:56.50,ED-rom,,0000,0000,0000,fx,{\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(0,36 0,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}mo{\fad(300,300)\be1\r \t(360,500,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}e{\fad(300,30 0)\be1\r\t(500,1230,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}ru {\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(1230,1370,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H 484848&)}i{\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(1370,1730,\1c&HFF FFFF&\3c&H484848&)}to{\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(1730,1 930,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}shi{\fad(300,300)\be 1\r\t(1930,2210,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}sa {\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(2210,2490,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H 484848&)}ga {\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(2490,3030,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H 484848&)}kou{\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(3030,3250,\1c&H FFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}sa {\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(3250,3410,\1c&HFFFFFF&\3c&H 484848&)}shi{\fad(300,300)\be1\r\t(3410,3800,\1c&H FFFFFF&\3c&H484848&)}ta

but instead of fading one by one (at least I think fad is for fading) first half of the subtitle row is darker than the second half. I don't understand the settings so I don't know if that's how it should look like or the problem is with me to view the karaoke correctly.

[dreamer2908]

Playbacking your kara surely requires a lot of CPU and subtitle renderer will skip some (a lot) effect to keep up to video playback.
Hardsub kara-FX is nearly a must. If you want soft kara then don't use FX.