Hungarian accented characters 'ő' and 'ű' show up as '?'

bupe · 04-16-2010, 11:16 AM

Dear all,

I recently aquired a Sony PRS-300 and I'm having the above issue when trying to read my Google Reader rss feeds on the device.

Everything is as expected, except the 'ő' and 'ű' characters which show up only as a question mark ('?').

Please advise what to do, I already flashed a custom firmware to the device that I found on a Russian forum (http://translate.google.com/translat...ate.google.com, version 1.01a) but it still does not display the above characters properly.

Best regards,
Peter

troymc · 04-16-2010, 11:44 AM

I believe that the glyphs you want are U+0151 & U+0171. These should be available in any font which implements the Latin Extended-A character set.

Try using a font like FreeSerif which you can get from here.

You will need to either embed the font in you document or hack your ereader to use this font by default. My preference is to embed the font - disk space is cheap.

Troy

bupe · 04-16-2010, 03:34 PM

Thank you for your reply Troy.
Can you elaborate on how to embed the font when calibre is converting the Google Reeder feeds to the epub format?

Best regards,
Peter

troymc · 04-16-2010, 05:33 PM

I don't know of any way to have Calibre do it automatically. You would need to use an app like Sigil to edit the epub & embed it.

(edit: hmmm....maybe it could be done in the recipe?)

That might be a simple feature request for Calibre's epub output, though.
A) point to local font in epub output config page
B) then when epubs are created Calibre would:

copy font file to /OEBPS/Fonts
add font file to manifest in content.opf
add @font-face declaration to css
add body tag w/font family declaration to css

Troy

kovidgoyal · 04-17-2010, 01:14 AM

font embedding for epub is on the todo list, there are a few technical complications that mean I haven't gt around to addressing it yet.

kiklop74 · 04-17-2010, 05:50 AM

See this post that explains what should be modified in google recipe to enable propper display of these characters.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=106

04-16-2010, 11:16 AM	#1
bupe Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Sony PRS-300	Hungarian accented characters 'ő' and 'ű' show up as '?' Dear all, I recently aquired a Sony PRS-300 and I'm having the above issue when trying to read my Google Reader rss feeds on the device. Everything is as expected, except the 'ő' and 'ű' characters which show up only as a question mark ('?'). Please advise what to do, I already flashed a custom firmware to the device that I found on a Russian forum (http://translate.google.com/translat...ate.google.com, version 1.01a) but it still does not display the above characters properly. Best regards, Peter

04-16-2010, 03:34 PM	#3
bupe Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Sony PRS-300	Clarification request Thank you for your reply Troy. Can you elaborate on how to embed the font when calibre is converting the Google Reeder feeds to the epub format? Best regards, Peter

04-16-2010, 05:33 PM	#4
troymc Groupie Posts: 161 Karma: 608 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Plano, TX Device: Sony PRS-505 + B&N Nook + Motion LE1700 + Motorola Xoom Wifi	I don't know of any way to have Calibre do it automatically. You would need to use an app like Sigil to edit the epub & embed it. (edit: hmmm....maybe it could be done in the recipe?) That might be a simple feature request for Calibre's epub output, though. A) point to local font in epub output config page B) then when epubs are created Calibre would: copy font file to /OEBPS/Fonts add font file to manifest in content.opf add @font-face declaration to css add body tag w/font family declaration to css Troy

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04-16-2010, 11:44 AM	#2
troymc Groupie Posts: 161 Karma: 608 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Plano, TX Device: Sony PRS-505 + B&N Nook + Motion LE1700 + Motorola Xoom Wifi	I believe that the glyphs you want are U+0151 & U+0171. These should be available in any font which implements the Latin Extended-A character set. Try using a font like FreeSerif which you can get from here. You will need to either embed the font in you document or hack your ereader to use this font by default. My preference is to embed the font - disk space is cheap. Troy

04-17-2010, 01:14 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	font embedding for epub is on the todo list, there are a few technical complications that mean I haven't gt around to addressing it yet.

04-17-2010, 05:50 AM	#6
kiklop74 Guru Posts: 800 Karma: 194644 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Argentina Device: Kindle Voyage	See this post that explains what should be modified in google recipe to enable propper display of these characters. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=106

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