Issues with Chinese text file conversion

dm15441 · 08-06-2011, 02:12 AM

Hi,

I have a text file that I successfully converted to mobi in Calibre, but when I open it, I get a Calibre parallel exe error. So, I then tried to convert it into an epub file, but I got the below error. It does sound like Sigil may help me, but it seems a little beyond my technical skills. Is there an easier option? Also, I did try just copying and pasting only the beginning of the txt file into an RTF format, but even though that worked, I only see scrambled characters when I open it (to clarify, the text file is scrambled itself as a result of it being a Chinese file, but other Chinese files that I have that are the same way, but smaller in size, became readable when I converted them to mobi in Calibre):

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ldolse · 08-06-2011, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dm15441

Hi,

I have a text file that I successfully converted to mobi in Calibre, but when I open it, I get a Calibre parallel exe error. So, I then tried to convert it into an epub file, but I got the below error. It does sound like Sigil may help me, but it seems a little beyond my technical skills. Is there an easier option? Also, I did try just copying and pasting only the beginning of the txt file into an RTF format, but even though that worked, I only see scrambled characters when I open it (to clarify, the text file is scrambled itself as a result of it being a Chinese file, but other Chinese files that I have that are the same way, but smaller in size, became readable when I converted them to mobi in Calibre):

Next time create a new thread describing your problem instead of adding an unrelated issue to a months old thread...

With text files you sometimes need to define the line paragraph structure on the text input panel of the conversion options. By default Calibre tries to auto-detect where text file paragraphs begin/end, but in your case it failed. Choose one of the other options - single line paragraphs is the safest, but without seeing your doc it's difficult to recommend a specific format, just read the descriptions and see how they line up with your doc.

Simplest way to unscramble the text encoding is to open it in a text editor so it's viewable/readable on your desktop, and then re-save it using the UTF-8 encoding, which is what Calibre expects by default.

08-06-2011, 02:12 AM	#1
dm15441 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Issues with Chinese text file conversion Hi, I have a text file that I successfully converted to mobi in Calibre, but when I open it, I get a Calibre parallel exe error. So, I then tried to convert it into an epub file, but I got the below error. It does sound like Sigil may help me, but it seems a little beyond my technical skills. Is there an easier option? Also, I did try just copying and pasting only the beginning of the txt file into an RTF format, but even though that worked, I only see scrambled characters when I open it (to clarify, the text file is scrambled itself as a result of it being a Chinese file, but other Chinese files that I have that are the same way, but smaller in size, became readable when I converted them to mobi in Calibre): Spoiler: calibre, version 0.8.11 ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (哈利波特(1-7全)) Convert book 1 of 1 (哈利波特(1-7全)) Resolved conversion options calibre version: 0.8.11 {'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'change_justification': u'original', 'chapter': u"//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter\|book\|section\|part\|prologue\|epilogue\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']", 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak', 'comments': None, 'cover': None, 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': True, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'epub_flatten': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'fix_indents': True, 'flow_size': 260, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'formatting_type': u'auto', 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x05770E90>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5, 'insert_metadata': False, 'isbn': None, 'italicize_common_cases': True, 'keep_ligatures': False, 'language': None, 'level1_toc': None, 'level2_toc': None, 'level3_toc': None, 'line_height': 0.0, 'linearize_tables': False, 'margin_bottom': 5.0, 'margin_left': 5.0, 'margin_right': 5.0, 'margin_top': 5.0, 'markdown_disable_toc': False, 'markup_chapter_headings': True, 'max_toc_links': 50, 'minimum_line_height': 120.0, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_default_epub_cover': False, 'no_inline_navbars': False, 'no_svg_cover': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x05779150>, 'page_breaks_before': u"//[name()='h1' or name()='h2']", 'paragraph_type': u'auto', 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False, 'preserve_spaces': False, 'pretty_print': True, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'c:\\users\\wypath\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibre _0.8.11_tmp_jqkijr\\calibre_0.8.11_j0uhwg.opf', 'remove_fake_margins': True, 'remove_first_image': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False, 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5, 'renumber_headings': True, 'replace_scene_breaks': u'', 'series': None, 'series_index': None, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': None, 'sr1_search': None, 'sr2_replace': None, 'sr2_search': None, 'sr3_replace': None, 'sr3_search': None, 'tags': None, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'txt_in_remove_indents': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: TXT Input running on c:\users\wypath\appdata\local\temp\calibre_0.8.11_ tmp_jqkijr\calibre_0.8.11_qwwffr.txt Reading text from file... Detected input encoding as GB2312 with a confidence of 99.0% Auto detected paragraph type as single Auto detected formatting as textile Running text through textile conversion... Language not specified Creator not specified Building file list... Found files... HTMLFile:0:a:c:\users\wypath\appdata\local\temp\ca libre_0.8.11_tmp_jqkijr\index.html Normalizing filename cases Rewriting HTML links Parsing index.html ... Initial parse failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\base.py", line 886, in first_pass File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2743, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:52665) File "parser.pxi", line 1573, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:79932) File "parser.pxi", line 1445, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:78709) File "parser.pxi", line 920, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:75083) File "parser.pxi", line 564, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71739) File "parser.pxi", line 645, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72614) File "parser.pxi", line 585, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71955) XMLSyntaxError: Opening and ending tag mismatch: 从郁金香花园中悄悄走过 line 548 and p, line 548, column 102 Parsing file 'index.html' as HTML Forcing index.html into XHTML namespace Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Auto generated TOC with 0 entries. Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Removing fake margins... Parsing stylesheet.css ... Found 13240 items of level: p_1 p_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 13240}) p_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 13240}) Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Creating EPUB Output... Looking for large trees in index.html... Found large tree #0 Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}hr //[2]/[13239] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[6621] Split tree still too large: 1674 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[3311] Split tree still too large: 784 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[1656] Split tree still too large: 397 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[828] Committed sub-tree #1 (211 KB) Committed sub-tree #2 (186 KB) Split tree still too large: 386 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #3 (186 KB) Committed sub-tree #4 (200 KB) Split tree still too large: 890 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[1656] Split tree still too large: 461 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #5 (232 KB) Committed sub-tree #6 (229 KB) Split tree still too large: 429 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #7 (209 KB) Committed sub-tree #8 (220 KB) Split tree still too large: 4890 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[3311] Split tree still too large: 736 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[1656] Split tree still too large: 393 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #9 (223 KB) Committed sub-tree #10 (170 KB) Split tree still too large: 343 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #11 (164 KB) Committed sub-tree #12 (179 KB) Split tree still too large: 4154 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[1656] Split tree still too large: 335 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #13 (161 KB) Committed sub-tree #14 (174 KB) Split tree still too large: 3819 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[829] Committed sub-tree #15 (145 KB) Split tree still too large: 3673 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[415] Committed sub-tree #16 (87 KB) Split tree still too large: 3586 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[208] Committed sub-tree #17 (43 KB) Split tree still too large: 3542 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[104] Committed sub-tree #18 (13 KB) Split tree still too large: 3529 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[53] Split tree still too large: 2431 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[27] Split tree still too large: 1470 KB Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[14] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[15] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[13] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[16] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[12] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[17] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[11] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[18] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[10] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[19] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[9] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[20] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[8] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[21] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[7] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[22] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[6] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[23] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[5] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[24] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[4] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[25] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[3] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[26] Split tree too small Splitting... Split point: {http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}p //[2]/[2] Split tree too small Splitting... Python function terminated unexpectedly Could not find reasonable point at which to split: index.html Sub-tree size: 1471 KB (Error Code: 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "site.py", line 132, in main File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 181, in main File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1057, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\epub\output.py", line 169, in convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 57, in __call__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 67, in split_item File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 205, in __init__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 425, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 409, in split_to_size File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\split.py", line 402, in split_to_size calibre.ebooks.oeb.transforms.split.SplitError: Could not find reasonable point at which to split: index.html Sub-tree size: 1471 KB Moderator Notice wrapped long error in spoiler Last edited by theducks; 08-06-2011 at 08:35 AM.

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