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CommonReader · 06-26-2011, 12:16 PM

Bear with me as a noob in these matters.
I have converted a book with the Japanese letters Ō and ō from mobi to epub and lrf with Calibre. Unfortunately the book shows up perfectly in Calibre, Firefox and Sigil - just not in the Sony Reader.

The letters show up as "?" in epub and as blanks in lrf. (I have the same problem with the name Žižek in a different book.)

Is there a simple way to handle this problem that is available for me as a noob? I do not like to flash the firmware or to learn programming just for this book. Usually I would try to avoid these issues by converting it to pdf, unfortunately as the book also contains maps the results of converting it with Calibre to pdf are somewhat unsatisfactory.

I always understood that lrf-files also include required fonts. Why doesn't it work with this file?

Thanks in advance for your help.

06-26-2011, 12:16 PM	#1
CommonReader Fanatic Posts: 528 Karma: 2530000 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Sony PRS-T3, PRS-650, Vaio Tap 11, iPad Mini	Ō, what to do with it? Bear with me as a noob in these matters. I have converted a book with the Japanese letters Ō and ō from mobi to epub and lrf with Calibre. Unfortunately the book shows up perfectly in Calibre, Firefox and Sigil - just not in the Sony Reader. The letters show up as "?" in epub and as blanks in lrf. (I have the same problem with the name Žižek in a different book.) Is there a simple way to handle this problem that is available for me as a noob? I do not like to flash the firmware or to learn programming just for this book. Usually I would try to avoid these issues by converting it to pdf, unfortunately as the book also contains maps the results of converting it with Calibre to pdf are somewhat unsatisfactory. I always understood that lrf-files also include required fonts. Why doesn't it work with this file? Thanks in advance for your help.