Hello.
First of all, thanks to Kovid for this great piece of software. Good job!.
Second of all, yes I have read the FAQ and searched in the forums for post that could help with my problem without any luck.
With permision, let me start.
I have an Ipod Touch 1G with Stanza app and I use Calibre 0.7.29 to convert
mostly RTF, PDF and DOC files to Epub for comfortable reading while on travel.
When I convert the book files, no matter what "from" and "to" formats I choose, spanish characters like "ñ" are incorrectly converter to "n" and stressed vowels (á,é,í,ó,) dissapear along with the following character --> example: "río" becomes "r" and it even can join two seperate words together like " allí junto" becoming "alljunto"
I have done the following to try to solve this (note that I use Calibre in Spanish language, maybe my translation is not right or precise):
A) Starting from RFT files, "Input codification" field in "Conversion common options" (not in Look&Feel as is stated in the FAQ) has been set to the following values (one at a time) when the output is EPUB format:
1) windows-1252 (or windows1252)
2) CP-1252 (or cp1252)
4) ISO-8859-1 (or ISO88591)
All of the above codifications allow me to read the HTML converted files
from RTF (with Microsoft Word) in google Chrome.
B) Using UTF8 does not improve things, it makes them worst, as stressed bowels and "ñ" become strange characters like "ñ".
C) I have repeated A & B steps for PDF output. in this case, an strange interrogation icon can be seen where stressed bowels should be, but "ñ" is rendered correct.
D) I have repeated A & B steps, but starting with HTML files (which Calibre puts into zip) to EPUB output, and as previous verification, I have unzipped the HTML file and opened with Google Chrome, and they look nice with right characters.
Maybe am I forgotten something, I am becoming very frustrated with this, as its very uncomfortable to read some words where most of the characters have disappeared (example "cíñete" becomes "cete").
Please, forgive me if the solution is at any post around the corner, I have just been looking for this issue for a whole week before giving up and posting.
Thanks for your help in advance.
