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Old 01-08-2012, 04:25 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by psx10k View Post
I recently bought a Kindle, and have loaded some chinese mobi ebooks on it for my parents. The content shows as simplified chinese.
AFAIK, the Kindle has no options for changing the display from simplified to traditional Chinese characters. Therefore the source text was most likely encoded to use simplified characters.

If you have a Kindle 3, you might want to check out the alternative Kindle OS 多看 2012 (Chinese site), which is developed by Chinese developers and features several IMEs, an English-Chinese StarDict dictionary and other features of interest to Chinese speakers. They also have a forum and I'm sure that some of their members must have encountered the same problem and already came up with an easy solution. (There's also an English MR thread with more information).

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Originally Posted by psx10k View Post
If so, can Calibre or another tool do this conversion?
It's unlikely, but another Chinese user might have created a conversion plugin.

I usually get more consistent results with non-Latin characters by first creating an ePub with Sigil and then converting it with either Kindlegen or Calibre.

Please find attached a simple test ePub that I created with Sigil and then converted with both Kindlegen and Calibre.
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File Type: epub tc_test.epub (2.1 KB, 333 views)
File Type: mobi tc_test_calibre.mobi (56.5 KB, 434 views)
File Type: mobi tc_test_kindlegen.mobi (5.7 KB, 408 views)

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