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Old 01-08-2008, 02:20 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by akiburis View Post
Why do you need to format your ebooks for a device or an application that can't properly render extended-ASCII or Unicode character encodings? Why torture yourself? I really would like to discourage you from doing that!
Thank you for the understanding, akiburis.
Really, it wasnt a torture, I enjoy coding... although I felt heavily disappointed by some reactions.

Of course my 505 can easily render extended-ASCII and Unicode character encodings.

The reason I wrote it is that I work often with books which are not in formats like those mentioned by HarryT, (i.e.... some format which correctly indicates its code page as, for example, a MobiPocket book does...). This often happens in plain .txt files, not indicating any code page at all.

I wouldnt think at all using it on an already beautifully formatted moby book - the problems arise from just-scanned texts. A simple run with the [-l] switch tells me at once if there are any problems - just then I know what/if to do anything to correct them.

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