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With typesetting, some fonts admittedly don't have certain characters, or have them paywalled unless you fork over money for a license. I remember having to fudge a hyphen out of another character that was reasonable to convert, and then using it as a resizable image of a hyphen where needed. Obviously the best idea there is to just choose another font, but sometimes it's too late but the time that realization kicks in and things have to be consistent. That said, I don't think I've ever personally seen a font that locked free users out of actual letters. Numbers are bad enough, but at least those can be typed out if need be.
Part of me wonders if it the prior subs were made via some sort of algorithm to try to convert a handwritten or printed transcript into digital text, but in those cases, and especially the latter, just, why even do that in the first place? And these subs also predate the modern AI crazy by like a decade, so it can't be due to that either.
Timing feels a bit off. Not horrible, and actually seems to correct itself to some degree as it goes on, but I'm guessing they were originally made around for a different upload than the multi-audio one most people go for as a torrent these days.