Subtitle encoding missing from external subtitle

Moved from https://bugs.launchpad.net/audience/+bug/1360085

**raulpetrut**:
>I have subtitles in Romanian and special characters are shown like this
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> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1383137/Screenshot%20from%202014-08-22%2008%3A57%3A45.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1383137/Screenshot%20from%202014-08-22%2008%3A57%3A48.png
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>Also you can notice that subtitle looks ugly
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>This is how it looks in smplayer
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>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1383137/Screenshot%20from%202014-08-22%2009%3A11%3A44.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1383137/Screenshot%20from%202014-08-22%2009%3A12%3A55.png
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>I wonder if we can take mplayer.conf subtitle settings and integrate it in Audience (subtitle size, shadow, color, language...)

**Ivan Vrljić (vrlja92)**:
>Same problem in Croatian. Letters like ž,š etc are shown as 009e or 009e. It is problem with encoding.
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**zin (zdravko-nikolov)**:
>Hi, same problem here with Cyrillic subtitles. There should be an option to change the encoding for external subtitles. This is a must have feature!

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