Busted Curlies

brewt · 03-24-2009, 08:35 PM

This USED to work........

I've got some ebooks I've been updating recently in MobiCreator.

The Curly Quotes and Curly Apostrophes are now showing as unprintable characters in MobiPocket. (a box)

To my ever-lovin'-best-knowledge, I did not change the encoding on either the source files nor the opf.

Did I turn something off?

This is using mobiPocket Creator V4.2 build 41.

In fact - I'm looking at 2 files, both with the curly apostrophe encoded as [’] one works in Mobi, the other doesn't.

Are there Brilliances to be had?
-bjc

wallcraft · 03-24-2009, 08:56 PM

This is typically caused by an encoding mismatch. Either the base HTML (or whatever) is specifying windows-1252 but using UTF-8 or isn't specifying anything and you are getting windows-1252 by default. The default can be changed to UTF-8 under Tools -> Settings -> Default Encoding. If the imported document has the wrong setting then this needs to be changed too.

brewt · 03-24-2009, 09:16 PM

Hmmm. My old friend Word (which is what I concocted the html in - don't say it) says it is encoding in Western European ISO, when I Open the file in TED, it says the carriage returns are in Win/Ansi, the file header says <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">, and Mobi says it's default (and document-specific) encoding is Western Windows 1252.
The code used for the apostrophe is [& # 8 2 1 7 ;] (had to space it to keep from making one when posted).

If I make a New Document out of the air, it all seems fine.

Wonder how I broke what I had......

-bjc

Jellby · 03-25-2009, 07:32 AM

Maybe you are using a font that does not have those characters?

Vesper · 03-25-2009, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brewt

Wonder how I broke what I had......

-bjc

Installed the most recent mobipocket creator is my guess.

DrS

nrapallo · 03-25-2009, 09:50 AM

I found that, using the recent build of Mobipocket Creator, you need to insert into your .html, in the <head> section, the following line for all those nice HTML entities to be properly represented:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Strange that they don't support this as THE default!

Jellby · 03-25-2009, 01:07 PM

I believe that if the quotes are written with &# 8271; or & rsquo; or whatever, the particular encoding used does not matter at all.

03-24-2009, 08:35 PM	#1
brewt Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer Posts: 251 Karma: 686 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Kobo Glo HD!	Busted Curlies This USED to work........ I've got some ebooks I've been updating recently in MobiCreator. The Curly Quotes and Curly Apostrophes are now showing as unprintable characters in MobiPocket. (a box) To my ever-lovin'-best-knowledge, I did not change the encoding on either the source files nor the opf. Did I turn something off? This is using mobiPocket Creator V4.2 build 41. In fact - I'm looking at 2 files, both with the curly apostrophe encoded as [’] one works in Mobi, the other doesn't. Are there Brilliances to be had? -bjc Last edited by brewt; 03-24-2009 at 08:39 PM.

03-25-2009, 09:50 AM	#6
nrapallo GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator Posts: 2,958 Karma: 2530691 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: REB1200 EBW1150 Device: T1 NSTG iLiad_v2 NC Device: Asus_TF Next1 WPDN	I found that, using the recent build of Mobipocket Creator, you need to insert into your .html, in the <head> section, the following line for all those nice HTML entities to be properly represented: Code: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> Strange that they don't support this as THE default!

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03-24-2009, 08:56 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,975 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	This is typically caused by an encoding mismatch. Either the base HTML (or whatever) is specifying windows-1252 but using UTF-8 or isn't specifying anything and you are getting windows-1252 by default. The default can be changed to UTF-8 under Tools -> Settings -> Default Encoding. If the imported document has the wrong setting then this needs to be changed too.

03-24-2009, 09:16 PM	#3
brewt Boo-Frickety-Hoo-Erizer Posts: 251 Karma: 686 Join Date: Oct 2007 Device: Kobo Glo HD!	Hmmm. My old friend Word (which is what I concocted the html in - don't say it) says it is encoding in Western European ISO, when I Open the file in TED, it says the carriage returns are in Win/Ansi, the file header says <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">, and Mobi says it's default (and document-specific) encoding is Western Windows 1252. The code used for the apostrophe is [& # 8 2 1 7 ;] (had to space it to keep from making one when posted). If I make a New Document out of the air, it all seems fine. Wonder how I broke what I had...... -bjc

03-25-2009, 07:32 AM	#4
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,515 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	Maybe you are using a font that does not have those characters?

03-25-2009, 01:07 PM	#7
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,515 Karma: 18512745 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	I believe that if the quotes are written with &# 8271; or & rsquo; or whatever, the particular encoding used does not matter at all.

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