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KevinH · 10-13-2010, 11:32 AM

FYI

Be careful, some readers and even ADE do not seem to be able to show characters not supported in their internal character set becasue they come with limited fonts that only support some encodings (not full utf-8).

For example, I simply copy and pasted your test line into a new Sigil document, was able to save it as an epub and open it in Sigil and see everything correctly. But when I opened it in my Sony Reader software, the string looked like garbage with ? marks everyplace.

So just because the epub is technically correct, does not mean it will display properly on every reader.

Take care,

KevinH

10-13-2010, 11:32 AM	#6
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,881 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	FYI Be careful, some readers and even ADE do not seem to be able to show characters not supported in their internal character set becasue they come with limited fonts that only support some encodings (not full utf-8). For example, I simply copy and pasted your test line into a new Sigil document, was able to save it as an epub and open it in Sigil and see everything correctly. But when I opened it in my Sony Reader software, the string looked like garbage with ? marks everyplace. So just because the epub is technically correct, does not mean it will display properly on every reader. Take care, KevinH