character set troubles

wijnands · 04-07-2010, 03:26 PM

If I post a very obvious question please excuse me, I am rather new to a lot of file formats, been on lit on an ipaq for some time.

I downloaded a book which turned out to be a lot of loose files in a OEBPS folder. Using mobireader I converted this to prc, still thinking that mobireader was a good app for my nokia 5800.

After a lot of messing around with the app on my nokia I gave up and found zxreader. Using Calibre I converted the prc to .fb2. Somehow that ended up in the cp866 character set which messed up the book into something unreadable.

Thinking that something was wrong I grabbed an old .lit file and converted that which went fine.

So... can I fix this? What's the best way to handle a OEBPS folder structure anyway?

Firepong · 04-07-2010, 05:50 PM

WoW, I just looked this up and I don't see how it was ever a eBook standard. I saw so much problems in just reading it compared to the new standard, ePub

kovidgoyal · 04-07-2010, 11:23 PM

just zip it up and add it to calibre.

wijnands · 04-08-2010, 02:30 PM

And that works, my compliments for that!

In the preview I can't see anything strange, in the debug mode I can't find anything strange and yet the fb2 output causes problems.

I decided to circumvent the issue and simply converted to .txt.

There is an issue here, just I don't know if it's in calibre's fb2 out or, more likely, in vxreader. Unfortunately the latter's website is in russian.

rbruce1314 · 05-15-2010, 04:56 AM

I too have problems getting correct character output on zxreader on 5800. It looks perfect on Calibre but despite selecting UTF8 as specified the problems remain.

kovidgoyal · 05-15-2010, 11:12 AM

Since fb2 is a simple text file, you can open it up with a txt editor to verify taht the encoding is correct. If it is correct, then calibre has created a correct fb2 file and the bug is in the reader, which you will have to take up with the reader's creators.

04-07-2010, 03:26 PM	#1
wijnands Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: nokia 5800, Ipaq	character set troubles If I post a very obvious question please excuse me, I am rather new to a lot of file formats, been on lit on an ipaq for some time. I downloaded a book which turned out to be a lot of loose files in a OEBPS folder. Using mobireader I converted this to prc, still thinking that mobireader was a good app for my nokia 5800. After a lot of messing around with the app on my nokia I gave up and found zxreader. Using Calibre I converted the prc to .fb2. Somehow that ended up in the cp866 character set which messed up the book into something unreadable. Thinking that something was wrong I grabbed an old .lit file and converted that which went fine. So... can I fix this? What's the best way to handle a OEBPS folder structure anyway?

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04-07-2010, 05:50 PM	#2
Firepong Member Posts: 23 Karma: 30 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Bay, AR Device: iPad, Pandigital Novel, Kindle DX	WoW, I just looked this up and I don't see how it was ever a eBook standard. I saw so much problems in just reading it compared to the new standard, ePub

04-07-2010, 11:23 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,826 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	just zip it up and add it to calibre.

04-08-2010, 02:30 PM	#4
wijnands Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: nokia 5800, Ipaq	And that works, my compliments for that! In the preview I can't see anything strange, in the debug mode I can't find anything strange and yet the fb2 output causes problems. I decided to circumvent the issue and simply converted to .txt. There is an issue here, just I don't know if it's in calibre's fb2 out or, more likely, in vxreader. Unfortunately the latter's website is in russian.

05-15-2010, 04:56 AM	#5
rbruce1314 Groupie Posts: 179 Karma: 1021404 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Stroud, UK Device: Xgody tablet, LG G3 (Android), moon+reader	I too have problems getting correct character output on zxreader on 5800. It looks perfect on Calibre but despite selecting UTF8 as specified the problems remain.

05-15-2010, 11:12 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,826 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Since fb2 is a simple text file, you can open it up with a txt editor to verify taht the encoding is correct. If it is correct, then calibre has created a correct fb2 file and the bug is in the reader, which you will have to take up with the reader's creators.

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