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no harmony · 11-24-2011, 12:47 PM

I started reading ebooks on Sony PRS-T1 about a month ago and have problems related to reading Russian books.

When I open a book in FB2 format in Calibre, it correctly displays all characters. When I convert the book to EPUB and send it to PRS-T1, it shows question marks instead of text. By changing font from "Original" to anything else on the list, the Russian text shows up (not all characters though, about that later). Is there a way to have the text displayed correctly from the start, without the change of fonts?

This works fine for most texts, but not for all - see the attached screenshot as seen in Calibre. The second line has two words with special characters, and on Sony eReader it shows question marks for those characters, regardless of font selection. What is the cause of this, and could it be fixed?

11-24-2011, 12:47 PM	#1
no harmony Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Sony PRS-T1	Problem with font or character encoding I started reading ebooks on Sony PRS-T1 about a month ago and have problems related to reading Russian books. When I open a book in FB2 format in Calibre, it correctly displays all characters. When I convert the book to EPUB and send it to PRS-T1, it shows question marks instead of text. By changing font from "Original" to anything else on the list, the Russian text shows up (not all characters though, about that later). Is there a way to have the text displayed correctly from the start, without the change of fonts? This works fine for most texts, but not for all - see the attached screenshot as seen in Calibre. The second line has two words with special characters, and on Sony eReader it shows question marks for those characters, regardless of font selection. What is the cause of this, and could it be fixed? Attached Thumbnails