junk characters

I don't even know if junk characters is the proper term in English but here's the situation: I download subtitles in Russian from http://subs.com.ru and when I open them in VLC they display as junk, symbols that don't belong to any alphabet. So basically I want to say, "when I open Russian subtitles I get junk characters."
Thanks!

P.S. if anyone knows how to solve this problem let me know.:dunno: I never had a problem with subtitry.ru but on subs.com.ru it's not working. The srt files open properly in wordpad but when I put them in VLC they display as junk.

We say кракозябры for jumk symbols

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You can try to open srt file in wordpad and then "File" - "Save as..." - "Text document in Unicode" with the same filename.

Спасибо всем!! It works now.