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Old 08-04-2013, 11:19 PM   #1
tebo
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Illegible EPUB Text

I have a problem where the text of some EPUBs are rendering incorrectly in Nook PC (as well as calibre E-book reader). I have experienced the same issue with books downloaded from B&N as well as Gutenberg.

As an example from the book "A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: being Grimm's Wilke's Clavis ..."

From Content.opf:
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

From the HTML page metadata:
<meta content="abbyy to epub tool, v0.2" name="generator"/>
<meta content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>

Example rendering:
Ιι 1ΐ35 κιίΓνϊνβϋ 1οη§ βηοιι^ ίοΓ Λε ςορ>τϊ§1ιΙ Ιο οχρϊτο 3ΐΐ(3 ΐΗο Ιχ)ο1; Ιο οηΙΟΓ ΐΗο ριιΒΠς »1οπΐ3Ϊη. Α

B&N tells me that the file is corrupt, but I've seen this in many different EPUBs. It seems to be an issue with rendering Unicode characters (there is a mixture of Greek and English in the above example).

Any ideas?
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