[oneillpt]

Originally Posted by bthoven

Hi oneillpt,

Just try your latest script, Calibre got the content without error. As you said, Calibre will crash when trying to open the content.

I don't know why they are still using 874 codepage, instead of others which are more popular.

The thai.mobi/epub display Thai correctly.

Thanks again for your kind help.

And now the solution: it just needs one line added to the recipe, specifying the encoding. encoding = 'cp874'

So the recipe now starts with:

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import Tag, NavigableString

class thai(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title      = u'thai'
    __author__ = u'oneillpt'
    #masthead_url = 'http://www.elpais.com/im/tit_logo_int.gif'
    #  (you may want to select a masthead image from your source here)
    INDEX = 'http://www.naewna.com/allnews.asp?ID=79'
    encoding              = 'cp874'
    language = 'th_TH'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 2

and then continues as before. The MOBI output now shows proper Thai text. The formatting may need further work, but this is as far as I can go. Not being able to read Thai, all I can add is that the text looks centred, but probably should not be centred.