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Jreach · 03-31-2011, 02:18 PM

I have a book already published in paperback. I am wanting to convert it to an ebook for kindle/nook formats.

The book was written in word (docx) format. The book consists of primarily English characters but also has quite a bit of Japanese kanji and katakana in the text of the book.

When I convert the book only the English is present and the Japanese displays random symbols and letters. I am sure its an encoding issue. The question is how do I convert it from word format into an epub format that displays both English and Japanese text?

I have played with the idea of converting the Japanese text into pictures but they come out really grainy and are hard to line up with the existing text.

I have played with calibre and ecub and am running into the following issue.

03-31-2011, 02:18 PM	#1
Jreach Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Nook	Multilingual I have a book already published in paperback. I am wanting to convert it to an ebook for kindle/nook formats. The book was written in word (docx) format. The book consists of primarily English characters but also has quite a bit of Japanese kanji and katakana in the text of the book. When I convert the book only the English is present and the Japanese displays random symbols and letters. I am sure its an encoding issue. The question is how do I convert it from word format into an epub format that displays both English and Japanese text? I have played with the idea of converting the Japanese text into pictures but they come out really grainy and are hard to line up with the existing text. I have played with calibre and ecub and am running into the following issue.