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Old 07-14-2008, 02:55 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
i did eventually manage to make a really nice .prc edition, by starting from the .opf file created by convertLit, so now i have a beautiful mobi book, perfectly formatted, with all the images and every special character, when i preview it in the pc mobipocket reader. yay ! BUT, when i transfer the book to the cybook, arg !! a lot of the special characters disappear !!! and i have those stupid blank squares instead. i thought, maybe the font i am using is not complete, so i charged Times New Roman (i don't think there is a glyph in the world which is not represented in TNR). still those squares. so, it must come from the firmware, which only supports a partial charset. and frankly i find that very disappointing. it would be really nice to have that fixed in a firmware update.
Is the encoding set correctly in the .opf and .html files (and therefore in the .prc)? It should probably be utf-8. I think MobiPocket also does some in-line translation of (mis-coded?) special characters in the Desktop Reader, because I have seen some cases where FBReader gives squares but MobiPocket does not. I can't recall if this was fixable in FBReader by changing the encoding or not.

Another issue is that Desktop MR will override your font choice if it has to in order to get all the ranges of UTF-8 it needs. FBReader only uses one font at a time (exactly the one you select), so it may be a better test for what will happen on the Gen3. A free font with good coverage (but not to everyones taste) is Deja Vu Sans.
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