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Seabound · 10-18-2008, 04:21 AM

I'm trying to convert a book from mobi format to lrf. The book was translated from French, so it has a lot of accents and cedillas in it. Calibre gives the following error:

('UnicodeEncodeError', u"'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xe8' in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)")

I'm guessing the LRF format cannot handle these characters? Or does it not recognize the hex code? Is there a way around this, like making calibre just ignore the accents? Not a good solution, but it's better than nothing.

10-18-2008, 04:21 AM	#1
Seabound Steerage Class Posts: 711 Karma: 505995 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pacific Northwest, USA Device: Won't fit here anymore, see sig for a list of liseuses.	Error converting accented characters into LRF with calibre I'm trying to convert a book from mobi format to lrf. The book was translated from French, so it has a lot of accents and cedillas in it. Calibre gives the following error: ('UnicodeEncodeError', u"'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\\xe8' in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)") I'm guessing the LRF format cannot handle these characters? Or does it not recognize the hex code? Is there a way around this, like making calibre just ignore the accents? Not a good solution, but it's better than nothing.