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Plex channel not showing external Cyrillic subtitles

Just trying to setup Plex on my Roku Streambar. What I found is that external subtitles work only in English. Cyrillic is not supported. Plex channel sees and shows that the subtitles are loaded but nothing is displayed. I believe the same is observed for Chinese and other non English subs. Any suggestions how to resolve this issue?

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renojim
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Re: Plex channel not showing external Cyrillic subtitles

Roku devices have very limited built-in fonts.  It's up to the developers of each app to add support for others, but I don't think it's possible to add a font to the subtitle components, so it would take a lot of work implement.  I don't use Plex, but it has its own forum and I'd be surprised if this hasn't come up before.

https://forums.plex.tv/t/welcome-to-the-plex-forums/
https://support.plex.tv/

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