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addressee · 04-23-2012, 05:30 PM

Just to stretch this thread through another question/example of rendering accented characters...

A book I am reading uses french characters including the "grave accent"/accent grave such as "à" (small letter 'a' with grave) which is not rendered correctly in the Calibre Ebook viewer.

The CSS sheet calls for "font-family : Georgia, serif;" which is available to both Windows7 and Stanza on my iPod. The book and character renders correctly in Stanza, Sigil, Adobe Digital Editions, Firefox, etc., but not in the Calibre Ebook viewer, where it appears as "Ă¨". This is also how the character appears in the Web Inspector.

The Calibre viewer config specifies Georgia for the serif family; my user stylesheet does not specify a font.

Is Qt also at fault here for this generic font?
Is there anything a reader or publisher can do to ease this situation?

Thanks.

04-23-2012, 05:30 PM	#13
addressee Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: iPod Touch 4g	Just to stretch this thread through another question/example of rendering accented characters... A book I am reading uses french characters including the "grave accent"/accent grave such as "à" (small letter 'a' with grave) which is not rendered correctly in the Calibre Ebook viewer. The CSS sheet calls for "font-family : Georgia, serif;" which is available to both Windows7 and Stanza on my iPod. The book and character renders correctly in Stanza, Sigil, Adobe Digital Editions, Firefox, etc., but not in the Calibre Ebook viewer, where it appears as "Ă¨". This is also how the character appears in the Web Inspector. The Calibre viewer config specifies Georgia for the serif family; my user stylesheet does not specify a font. Is Qt also at fault here for this generic font? Is there anything a reader or publisher can do to ease this situation? Thanks.