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Old 03-05-2012, 09:25 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by mlcja View Post
>>>FWIW Calibre is not broken.
The book failed to properly declare the encoding. You had to help Calibre 'guess' what to use.<<<

Perhaps I should not have used the word "fix". I'm wondering if Calibre could make a better "guess" to start with, so I don't have to specify the encoding? Maybe there is a way to configure Calibre to do this? I've yet to come across a Epub book that Adobe Digital Editions reader exhibits the same issue. Excuse my ignorance, but why does the Calibre reader guess wrong and ADE guesses right? Just trying to understand better, I can certainly live with the solution that has been provided.
Now that is just plain odd.
100's of books that Calibre renders correctly and ADE had problems with.
Some with minor errors even caused ADE to crash, while Calibre rendered the file as intended
I have dozens of books tht ADE (on my device) has no suitable font and renders as '?' or just as a blank.
Not once, can I sat that ADE did a better job. Different, but acceptable. Failed, and butt ugly . and the wort f all, Crashed.
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