MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Preserving foreign characters from epub to mobi in Calibre

ldolse · 07-30-2011, 10:53 PM

Valid ePub already has to be UTF8 or UTF16, no other code page is allowed. Granted I agree that I have seen badly encoded ePubs as well, but usually the ePub won't display the characters correctly in that case.

You might want to check this page:
http://freekindlebooks.org/Unicode/unicode.html

If the Kindle can support that character or a similar glyph it would show up in one of those test files. You can use search and replace to search for the any variant it does support.

I suspect 'transliterate unicode to ascii' might be your only option that doesn't require hacking the Kindle's fonts, etc.

07-30-2011, 10:53 PM	#3
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123455 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	Valid ePub already has to be UTF8 or UTF16, no other code page is allowed. Granted I agree that I have seen badly encoded ePubs as well, but usually the ePub won't display the characters correctly in that case. You might want to check this page: http://freekindlebooks.org/Unicode/unicode.html If the Kindle can support that character or a similar glyph it would show up in one of those test files. You can use search and replace to search for the any variant it does support. I suspect 'transliterate unicode to ascii' might be your only option that doesn't require hacking the Kindle's fonts, etc.