Problem with Turkish (ğ and ı) characters

[karolymettler]

Hi!

First post here, welcome everyone!


I've just bought a Pocketbook Basic New and I'd like to read some Turkish stuff on it. These files are in UTF-8 format and display perfectly on my PC. When I upload the txt files on my device, it display ş, ç right, but all of the ğ and ı display as g and i.
I tried to set other encodings on the device such as ISO 8859-9 or win-1254 without success. So I can see ş and ç all right but not ğ and ı.

And I want to learn Turkish with these books so it's really confusing and I need the exact characters.

I don't really understand how come half of the Turkish characters are ok, half of them not and I'm not sure what the problem is.


Any suggestion, advice?

I'd appreciate it, thanks.

[preempalver]

Hi.
Perhaps the font provided with Basic New doesn't have complete coverage of glyphs for turkish language. Search and donwload other truetype fonts, for example here: http://www.turkishlingua.com/turkish-fonts.html.
Then it should be possible to choose somehow the downloaded font for use with epub files.

[karolymettler]

Hi preempalver and thanks for the tip.

I've downloaded the Turkish fonts and copied into the fonts folder.

Then I set the new font as default but my problem remained unfortunately.


Any other idea?

[preempalver]

but all of the ğ and ı display as g and i.

As a second thought, what you are signalling here could be also the result of a defective epub conversion.
Let's suppose that the original source of the ebook was a book digitized with a scanner and converted in editable format via an Optical Character Recognition program.
Then it's quite possible that ğ and ı were mistaken as g and i during the process, a typical issue of OCR conversion caused by multiple factors.
An epub editor like Sigil could help in substituting wrong occurrences with right characters.

EDIT:
I'm deeply sorry, I need to sleep. You said you're using a txt file. May I ask if you can provide me a link to the file, I'd wish to try it on my PB603. Or attaching just a partial file here?