{"id":23,"date":"2025-04-20T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/?p=23"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:21:45","slug":"display-chinese-subtitle-in-vlc-on-macos-15-sequoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Display Chinese subtitle in VLC on Sequoia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83d\ude24 VLC shows squares instead of Chinese characters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/368214428-51eb314a-6454-46e2-9e32-4afdf1a9833e-1-1024x565-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/368214428-51eb314a-6454-46e2-9e32-4afdf1a9833e-1-1024x565-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/368214428-51eb314a-6454-46e2-9e32-4afdf1a9833e-1-1024x565-2-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/368214428-51eb314a-6454-46e2-9e32-4afdf1a9833e-1-1024x565-2-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>KNN CB&nbsp;<\/strong>Apple, always need us to suffer first before they sort things out. Wasted brain cells again, but whatever\u2014just do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Open Font Book<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to\u00a0<strong>Applications > Font Book<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Check for Chinese Fonts<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Search for\u00a0<strong>PingFang SC<\/strong>\u00a0(or any PingFang variants).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If not found, download and install them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Restart VLC<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quit VLC completely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reopen<\/strong>\u00a0it after the fonts are confirmed installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s it \u2014 Chinese characters should now display properly in subtitles or file names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude24 VLC shows squares instead of Chinese characters? KNN CB&nbsp;Apple, always need us to suffer first before they sort things out. Wasted brain cells again, but whatever\u2014just do this: That\u2019s it \u2014 Chinese characters should now display properly in subtitles or file names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}