Thread: Character Encoding Question
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Old 06-21-2014, 11:08 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
calibre detects encodings declared in HTML. I have no idea what Sigil does, from your description I'd guess it assumes UTF-8 always.

As for checking encodings, IIRC the editor autoconverts to UTF-8 whenever it processes any HTML, so I dont think checking will be possible or even necessary.
Well, the Calibre editor may autoconvert to UTF-8 on opening, but the header retains the old encoding:

<meta content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/>

and I think the e-book readers that do not autoconvert may display text with different strange characters (â, Ã, Â, ¦, etc. instead of “, ”, etc.), as Sigil does.

I know I can use Modify ePub add-on to encode in UTF-8, just would like to know that I need to. The way it is, I must use Sigil to open the book and find out if the encoding is off.

I guess my question is: would it be possible for Check Book to report "There is a non-UTF-8 encoding declared in xyz.html"? That would be really helpful.
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