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Old 02-27-2012, 09:17 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by pshute View Post
I tried them all, and none worked. then I realised I can type enything in the character encoding box, so I entered CP437, which Wikipedia indicated was the right one.

That worked (in the Calibre reader, havent tried on the Sony yet), but now I see the columns are misaligned. It looks like the whitespace has been collapsed.

I tried ticking Preserve Whitespace, but it didn't help. Now what?

I just tried it on the device, and now the box drawing characters are all question marks. Maybe I should be replacing the characters instead?

Anyone know if a Sony can do box drawing characters?
Also remember HTML tends to ignore multiple whitespace

If you wrap the Ascii Art in <pre> tags, that should stop that part of the problem.

You may need to embed (and specify) a font that has the old upper ASCII chars if your device does not have one for you to specify.
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