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Originally Posted by Fking
I've got bunch of doc, pdf, txt files in cyrillic which i want to convert to epub and enjoy on my nexus one with Aldiko reader.
I tried converting them by using cp1251 and UTF-8 for the character encoding field in Calibre, but they always open unreadable in Aldiko.
So, from here i don't have idea what to do. What would be to best practice to convert all kinds of cyrillic files into epub and read them normally?
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Most of the e-book readers do not support Cyrillic letters. Therefore in order to properly render those texts in EPUB format you need to embed fonts that do support that.
To do this correctly you must previously prepare your text. The best results are accomplished with utf-8 HTML. So here are the steps:
1. Convert your source text into utf-8 encoded HTML
2. Make sure HTML file has appropriate meta tag for charset
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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3. Download Liberation font pack from here
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ and unpack them in the same folder with HTML file
4. Add this to the head section of your HTML file:
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<style type="text/css">
@font-face { font-family: "Liberation Serif";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf)
}
@font-face { font-family: "Liberation Serif";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
src: url(LiberationSerif-Bold.ttf)
}
@font-face { font-family: "Liberation Serif";
font-style: italic;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(LiberationSerif-Italic.ttf)
}
@font-face { font-family: "Liberation Serif";
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
src: url(LiberationSerif-BoldItalic.ttf)
}
body {font-family: "Liberation Serif",serif}
</style>
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5. Now you can import that file into calibre and convert it to epub. If you did everything right - you will be able to read russian texts.
Simmilar thing was explained here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84256