Individual settings per eBook format

Guido Henkel · 02-06-2010, 01:36 AM

Hello,

I have just noticed that my LIT version of my eBook doesn't work properly because Windows is too dumb too properly display full UTF-8 characters. What a surprise....

Be that as it may, is there a chance that you could add a character replacement for each eBook format, so that I could for example tell Calibre to replace &x2606; with "*" when building the LIT format, while leaving it untouched when building other formats?

Thanks for taking this into consideration,
Guido

kovidgoyal · 02-06-2010, 10:37 AM

there is an option to transliterate to ascii in the conversion settings.

Guido Henkel · 02-06-2010, 02:26 PM

But what happens with characters that are not part of the ASCII set?

&x2606; is not anywhere in the ASCII set and I can see many other occasions also where I'd need symbols that are not part of any ASCII set, particularly not Windows' 30-year old interpretation of it.

I'll try the transliteration to see what exactly happens, though, and report back.

Thanks for the info, Kovid.

Guido Henkel · 02-08-2010, 11:09 AM

ASCII transliteration doesn't seem to work right. It removes the special character altogether. I am not sure about other people but on my end Calibre seems to behave rather erratically and I never get the sense that I can trust what it's doing. One day it build fine ePub files, the next day it will build files that seem to be corrupt - at least according to Adobe Digital Editions, and so forth. It's really weird.

02-06-2010, 01:36 AM	#1
Guido Henkel Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: mobi, epub, lit	Individual settings per eBook format Hello, I have just noticed that my LIT version of my eBook doesn't work properly because Windows is too dumb too properly display full UTF-8 characters. What a surprise.... Be that as it may, is there a chance that you could add a character replacement for each eBook format, so that I could for example tell Calibre to replace &x2606; with "*" when building the LIT format, while leaving it untouched when building other formats? Thanks for taking this into consideration, Guido

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02-06-2010, 10:37 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,871 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	there is an option to transliterate to ascii in the conversion settings.

02-06-2010, 02:26 PM	#3
Guido Henkel Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: mobi, epub, lit	But what happens with characters that are not part of the ASCII set? &x2606; is not anywhere in the ASCII set and I can see many other occasions also where I'd need symbols that are not part of any ASCII set, particularly not Windows' 30-year old interpretation of it. I'll try the transliteration to see what exactly happens, though, and report back. Thanks for the info, Kovid.

02-08-2010, 11:09 AM	#4
Guido Henkel Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: mobi, epub, lit	ASCII transliteration doesn't seem to work right. It removes the special character altogether. I am not sure about other people but on my end Calibre seems to behave rather erratically and I never get the sense that I can trust what it's doing. One day it build fine ePub files, the next day it will build files that seem to be corrupt - at least according to Adobe Digital Editions, and so forth. It's really weird.

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