A small utility script that re-encodes subtitle files downloaded by VLC player to UTF-8 and handles all the characters specific to Serbo-Croation alphabet
Python script handles the conversion. Bash script checks initial subtitle encoding and passes it to the Python script.
The code was written for my personal machine in mind, so it's not generalized for different environments. It works on Ubuntu with bash, and specifically needs the .bashrc file.
You will need to have Python 3 available on the system, even if it's not the default system-wide environment, and pip package installer.
The Python script needs two specific libraries, codecs and chardet, but these should be installed once you run install.sh.
Once all three files are downloaded (e.g. in $HOME/Downloads folder), first make the installer executable:
~/Downloads$ chmod +x stb_install.sh
Then, run the installer:
~/Downloads$ ./stb_install.sh
After this the scripts should be moved to $HOME/bin, made executable, and available to call from anywhere in the system. You can then execute the program by running (e.g.)
~/subs_to_balkan ~/Downloads/Awesome_movie/Awesome_movie.srt
The easiest way to get the full path to the subtitle file is to find it in your file manager, click on it, hit CTRL+C, and then in terminal paste it with CTRL+SHIFT+V.
- Marko Filipović - Initial work - MarkoMFilip
This project is licensed under the MIT License.