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Priscillux · 11-05-2011, 08:09 PM

Hello,

I was wondering whether anyone could help with the following issue: I have used the Fetch News facility available in Calibre to download news from Greek newspapers (currently Kathimerini and Ta Nea). Unfortunately, the accented characters display as strings of question marks, which makes the text very difficult to read. I've searched the forums here and have found that others report similar problems with Greek accented characters, however it seems to me that my problem is slightly different for the following reasons:

1) Accented characters in the Table of Contents display properly, the problem only affects accented characters in the article content.

2) Initially I thought that Greek fonts may not be supported by my eReader (Sony PRS-T1) because I had the same problem with an epub downloaded from the web. However, I was able to change fonts using the "Selected Font Type" option and found that all other font types available on the Sony apart from the 'original' (Amasis, Univers Next, etc.) display Greek accented characters properly. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Calibre-created news recipes.

3) There is no problem displaying accented Greek characters when browsing the Internet, which makes sense given that the text encoding method selected in the browser settings is UTF-8. I've checked the recipes in Advanced Mode (and also a few other recipes for Greek news posted by Stelios https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=155396) and noticed that some select UTF-8, while others use Windows-1253 as their encoding method, however this makes no difference to the display of the characters.

I would very much appreciate some help here as I've spent hours researching the forum for answers but without any luck.

I've tried the method described here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=61587&highlight=embed+fonts+sony but without any success (probably because I'm a complete newbie and cannot follow the steps to the end). I've also read posts about embedding fonts to the reader but I'm not sure that would solve the problem as I only have it with Calibre recipes.

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

11-05-2011, 08:09 PM	#1
Priscillux Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Sony PRS-T1	Greek not displaying properly in Calibre-created epubs Hello, I was wondering whether anyone could help with the following issue: I have used the Fetch News facility available in Calibre to download news from Greek newspapers (currently Kathimerini and Ta Nea). Unfortunately, the accented characters display as strings of question marks, which makes the text very difficult to read. I've searched the forums here and have found that others report similar problems with Greek accented characters, however it seems to me that my problem is slightly different for the following reasons: 1) Accented characters in the Table of Contents display properly, the problem only affects accented characters in the article content. 2) Initially I thought that Greek fonts may not be supported by my eReader (Sony PRS-T1) because I had the same problem with an epub downloaded from the web. However, I was able to change fonts using the "Selected Font Type" option and found that all other font types available on the Sony apart from the 'original' (Amasis, Univers Next, etc.) display Greek accented characters properly. Unfortunately, this option is not available for Calibre-created news recipes. 3) There is no problem displaying accented Greek characters when browsing the Internet, which makes sense given that the text encoding method selected in the browser settings is UTF-8. I've checked the recipes in Advanced Mode (and also a few other recipes for Greek news posted by Stelios https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=155396) and noticed that some select UTF-8, while others use Windows-1253 as their encoding method, however this makes no difference to the display of the characters. I would very much appreciate some help here as I've spent hours researching the forum for answers but without any luck. I've tried the method described here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=61587&highlight=embed+fonts+sony but without any success (probably because I'm a complete newbie and cannot follow the steps to the end). I've also read posts about embedding fonts to the reader but I'm not sure that would solve the problem as I only have it with Calibre recipes. Thank you in advance for any suggestions!